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Subject:Japanese art
Posted By: Don low Wed, May 15, 2019 IP: 47.140.156.39
Can someone help me identify this piece . It was passed on to me by my mother. A friend of hers visited Japan many urs ago and gave it as gift



Subject:Re: Japanese art
Posted By: Stan Wed, May 15, 2019
This appears to be a repro of a Hiroshige print titled "The Willow Tree at the Gate of the Shimabara Pleasure Quarter" (Shimabara Deguchi no Yanagi), from the series Famous Views of Kyoto (Kyôto meisho no uchi). Here is an original at the Boston MFA:

https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-willow-tree-at-the-gate-of-the-shimabara-pleasure-quarrter-shimabara-deguchi-no-yanagi-from-the-series-famous-views-of-kyoto-ky%C3%B4to-meisho-no-uchi-235822

Cheers,
Stan

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