Title (as per Okuda Atsuko, 2010): 房総名所房州小湊 Kominato in Awa Province, from the series Famous Places in Awa Province
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.
Catalogue Raisonné: Okuda Atsuko, 2010 № 91
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:
- [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.
- [LIB-3465.2025] Okuda Atsuko. Hiroshige’s Fan Prints: Unknown Ukiyo-e (Hiroshige no uchiwa-e, 広重の団扇絵 知られざる浮世絵). — Kyoto: Unsōdō, 2010.
Kominato in Kamogawa City, Chiba Prefecture, is known for Tanjōji Temple on Mount Kominato, built on the birthplace of the Buddhist saint Nichiren. This print depicts traveling women gazing into the distance at Uchiura Bay spreading out below, along with the mountain where Tanjōji is located and Nyūdō Cape.
