The Sixty-”ODD” Provinces by Hiroshige, pun intended.

Roland
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Distant View of Mount Zôzu from the series Sixty-odd Provinces by Hiroshige

A set of the Sixty-odd Provinces recently set a record price at auction of over three million dollars. This crazy price was for an assembled album of sixty prints, meaning each print theoritically sold for 33,000$ USD a sheet. Most of the best designs were far from fine condition, with margins trimmed as well as heavily restored.

Avid followers of the print market have been completely flummoxed by a lot of the auction action lately as many great designs are pretty much flopping at auction while two collectors went to war over a soso set of Hiroshige’s landscapes.

Sanuki Province: Distant View of Mount Zôzu (Sanuki, Zôzusan enbô)

From the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces

Utagawa Hiroshige

Publisher: Koshimuraya Heisuke

Blockcutter: Hori Sōji

Date: 1855 (Ansei 2), 9th month

Medium/Technique: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions: Vertical ôban;

Catalogue Raisonné

Jansen, Hiroshige's Journey (2004), #56; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 249, ôban #64.31

Description

No. 56 (Nankaidô group) on the title page for the series.