• True View of Tateyama in Etchū (Etchū Tateyama shinkei - 越中立山真景) from the series <i>One Hundred Views of Famous Places in the Provinces</i> (<i>Shokoku meisho hyakkei</i> - 諸国名所百景)
True View of Tateyama in Etchū (Etchū Tateyama shinkei - 越中立山真景) from the series <i>One Hundred Views of Famous Places in the Provinces</i> (<i>Shokoku meisho hyakkei</i> - 諸国名所百景)
True View of Tateyama in Etchū (Etchū Tateyama shinkei - 越中立山真景) from the series <i>One Hundred Views of Famous Places in the Provinces</i> (<i>Shokoku meisho hyakkei</i> - 諸国名所百景)
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Utagawa Hiroshige II (二代目歌川広重) (artist late 1820s - late 1860s)

True View of Tateyama in Etchū (Etchū Tateyama shinkei - 越中立山真景) from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in the Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei - 諸国名所百景)

Print

09/1859
9.5 in x 14.25 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Hiroshige ga (広重画)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
(Marks 442 - seal 24-008)
Combined date and censor seal: 9/1859 and aratame
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
British Museum
Edo-Tokyo Museum
National Diet Library
Google map - Tateyama is seen in the right-center
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - a similar, but horizontal, print of this scene by Hiroshige I from 1858
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - An 1834 horizontal landscape by Hokkei of this same scene Two yamabushi (山伏) traveling along a high, mountainous road.

This print is by Hiroshige II. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston refers to this publisher as Uoya Eikichi. Marks says it should be Sakanaya Eikichi.

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Listed in Hiroshige's Woodblock Prints: A Guide by Edward F. Strange, p.193, #46. Correctly identified as being by Hiroshige II. This print is from a set of 75 images.
Sakanaya Eikichi (魚屋栄吉) (publisher)
landscape prints (fūkeiga 風景画) (genre)