Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797~1858)

Japanese Woodblock Print  Name 

No.054 The Benkei Moat from Soto-Sakurada to Kōjimachi 外桜田弁慶堀糀町

From One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

The current Sakurada-bori was called Benkei-bori, and the area up to Yotsuya was

 broadly called Koji-cho.

This picture shows the residence of the Ii family in Hikone.

Naomasa, the founder of the Ii family's restoration, was a senior vassal of the Tokugawa

 family who played an active role in battles all over the country.

His descendant, the elder statesman Naosuke, was assassinated in the

"Sakuradamon Gate Incident" a few years after this picture was made.

One Hundred Famous Views of Edo  is a series of ukiyo-e prints

begun and largely completed by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797~1858)

Approx Image Size 

Height 34.00 cm  x Width 22.00 cm

(H 13.39" x  W 8.661")

Date 

These 120 woodblock prints (One hundred Famous View of Edo)

were reproduced in 1998-2004

by Tokyo traditional woodcut craft Association

for Two hundred anniversary of Utagawa Hiroshige birth.

Condition  

Only perfect condition one.　

Never rolled up.

Never framed, kept in professional condition.

Once in a while, we will be out of stock this print due to

keavy demand and slao procee of production team.

We recommend you to check the availability of this print

before place your order.

Once we are out of stock, it sometime takes few month to get for you.

Color 

Refer to our Pictures

The color of the actual Woodblock Print may be slightly different

from the images on our pictures.

It is impossible to show the actual color of

these fine art of woodblock prints and texture of Washi Paper.