Five Slabbed Stones on Pinnacle Overlooking Inlet

Medium:: Woodblock print
Format:: Oban
Source:: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Typical Price

Later reprint (Meiji–Taisho era publishers): $50–$400
Good later impression (Edo-period): $1,000–$5,000
Good early impression (vivid color, fine bokashi): $5,000–$20,000
Fine early impression (exceptional color and condition): $20,000–$60,000

Hiroshige produced an estimated 8,000 designs over his 40-year career, making him one of the most prolific masters of ukiyo-e. His market has strengthened significantly in recent years, with the 2025 Sotheby's Paris record of $2.4M and growing international collector interest.

Description

Flat-topped rocks thrust up from a coastal promontory overlooking a narrow inlet in this spare landscape composition. The geological subject — unusual for Hiroshige, who more often worked with weather and vegetation — gives the print an almost abstract quality, the angular stone forms contrasting with the soft water below. Such rocky coastal formations were associated with poetic places along the Ise and San-in coasts.