KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Three Japanese woodblock prints, all three oban yoko-e; the first by Hokusai entitled Fujiwara no Tadahira (Poem by Teishin Ko), from the series Hyakunin isshu ga etoki (One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets, explained by the Nurse), c.1835, signed saki no Hokusai manji, published by Iseya Sanjiro (Eijudo), censor's seal kiwame, 25.3cm x 37cm; the two others by Hiroshige, the first entitled Hakone, kosui no zu (Hakone: View of the Lake), from the series Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi (Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road), published by Akenouchi Magohachi (Hoeido), signed Hiroshige ga, censor's seal kiwame, 24cm x 37.2cm; the other of Nojima yusho (Sunset Glow at Nojima), from the series Kanazawa Hakkei (Eight Views of Kanazawa), signed Hiroshige ga, 24cm x 37.3cm. (3)

Provenance: from the collection of Brian McElney OBE (1932-2023), and thence by descent.