Kominato in Awa province (Bōshū Kominato) [房州小淡] – one of five fan prints in the series Famous places in the Bōsō peninsula (Bōsō meisho) [房粉名所], devoted to the trip undertaken by Hiroshige in 1852 to Bōsō peninsula (present-day Chiba prefecture). “Two fashionably dressed women beside the veranda of a wayside inn gaze out over Uchiura Bay toward the Tanjō Temple on the far shore as a boat sets out to the sea from the fishing hamlet of Kominato. …Hiroshige’s viewpoint is from the lower slopes of Mount Kiyosumi” (Izzard, 2020).
Reference: (1) [LIB-2398.2020] Sebastian Izzard. Important Japanese Prints 1830–1860 March 14–20, 2020 exhibition, №. 52. (2) Christophe Marquet. Hiroshige: Les éventails d’Edo / Estampes de la collection Georges Leskowicz. — Paris: In fine, 2022, № 30, p. 94.
Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige [歌川 広重] a.k.a. Andō Hiroshige [安藤 広重] (Japanese, 1797 – 1858).
Signed: Hiroshige ga [広重 画] in a red cartouche.
Publisher: Iseya Ichiemon 伊勢屋市右衛門] (Japanese, c. 1823 – 1864); seal Kaku-Tsuji 角辻 / Marks 16-023|143a.
Date seal and double nanushi censor seal: Mera & Watanabe [米良 & 波邊]; Kaei 5, 12th month of the year of the Rat (1852).
Dimensions: Fan print (Aiban yoko-e uchiwa-e); 225 x 292 mm.
