#44. Akasaka
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Typical Price
- Later reprint (Meiji–Taisho era publishers): $100–$600
From Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1856–58), a 118-print series of vertical oban landscapes and genre scenes that defined the visual image of Edo for generations. A complete set sold for $405,400 at Sotheby's Online Jul 2024.
Akasaka, the hilly district west of the shogunal castle, was lined with daimyo estates and the residences of high-ranking samurai, punctuated by temples and shrines that gave the area a more formal, refined character than the bustling merchant districts of the east. This numbered Edo view captures one of the district's notable landmarks or streetscapes in the western hills of the capital.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
#44. Akasaka was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重).
#44. Akasaka depicts urban scenes.
