Famous Places in Tokyo: True View of the Post Office at Edobashi (Tôkyô meisho Edobashi yûbinkyoku shinkei)

「東京名所江戸橋郵便局眞景」

Kobayashi Ikuhide (Japanese, active about 1883–1898)
Publisher: Hasegawa Sonokichi (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

1889 (Meiji 22)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 34 x 70.1 cm (13 3/8 x 27 5/8 in.)

Credit Line Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection

Accession Number2000.509a-c

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Virgin et al., Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age (MFA, 2001), #11, photo p. 51; Sharf, Imaging Meiji (1997), #24, photo p. 17

Signed Ikuhide hitsu

Marks Artist's seal: a flower

Inscriptions

ProvenancePreviously owned by various dealers: primarily in London and Tokyo. Purchased between 1985-1999.