Title: The Great Waterfall at the Twelve Shrines of Tsunohazu (Tsunohazu juniso otaki) from an untitled set of views of famous places in Edo.
Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige II [二代目 歌川広重] (Japanese, 1826 – 1869) – a son-in-law of Andō Hiroshige.
Signature: Hiroshige ga [廣重画]
Dimensions: Aiban yoko-e uchiwa-e, 226 x 291 mm.
Combined date/censor seal: 1861 (Man’en 2 / Bunkyū 1 from 19/II).
Publisher: Yama-Ta; seal: [板元, 太] – Hanmoto, Ta; Marks 19-044 | U421b: An unknown publisher in Edo, fl. c. 1815-61.
An aizuri-e (blue print) on a popular topic, many times depicted by Andō Hiroshige and Hiroshige II, including the below print by the latter No. 45, the Twelve Kumano Shrines at Tsunohazu (Tsunohazu Kumano jûnisha), from the series Forty-Eight Famous Views of Edo (Edo meisho yonjûhakkei)「江戸名所四十八景 四十五 角筈熊野十二社」
