Fans, Uchiwa

Fans, Uchiwa

Three Flat Fans with Hiroshige Prints The three fans are made of off white paper in a rectangular shape wider at the top with cut corners. The handles are carved unfinished wood wider at the top and split at the middle to cover the fine bamboo spokes and the reinforcing paper in a semi-circle shape with a white and beige Buddhist knot design. A: the print is of a grey beach with blue water men in straw hats and green garments yellow boats in front of green trees grey clouds and blue skies. Black ink kanji and red seals at the right "Hiroshige woodblock print of Tokaido 53 Mitsuke station Tenryu gawa no zu (at the Tenruy River). On the back is black ink kanji stamped advertising "International Sightseeing Association Hakkoen. Boiled food (ryusaku); Kansai style cooking (sangetsu); Eel cooking (shinkinshun); High class inn (Sukiya-no-iye)" B: Print of a harbor with blue water orange and grey houseboats white sails black trees on grey peninsula blue and orange hills in the background. yellow and grey buildings in the foreground. At the top is black ink kanji and two red seals "Hiroshige Tokaido 53 Ejiri Sampo embo (seal says looking from distance); Asahi no Borudo;. On the back is black stamped kanji "International Sightseeing Association Hakkoen. Boiled food (ryusaku); Kansai style cooking (sangetsu); Eel cooking (shinkinshun); High class inn (Sukiya-no-iye)" C: A village scene with brown yellow and orange buildings grey and brown trees people with straw hats and capes one on a horse. Streaks of grey represent rain. Surrounded by grey hills black trees silhouetted against a blue and white sea. Above is black ink kanji and two red seals. "Hiroshige woodblock print of Tokaido 53 Oyiso station (suburb of Tokyo) "hard rain (seal)". On the back is black ink kanji stamped advertising "International Sightseeing Association Hakkoen. Boiled food (ryusaku); Kansai style cooking (sangetsu); Eel cooking (shinkinshun); High class inn (Sukiya-no-iye)"On the back is black stamped kanji "International Sightseeing Association Hakkoen. Boiled food (ryusaku); Kansai style cooking (sangetsu); Eel cooking (shinkinshun); High class inn (Sukiya-no-iye)"

1996.010.194