Hiroshige III (Shigemasa)

Sudden Storm

Hiroshige III, also known as Shigemasa created this original Japanese woodcut entitled, "Sudden Storm" around 1890. It hails from a series of more traditional Japanese landscape scenes. It is clearly in a woodcut like this where we see the continuing legacy of the original Hiroshige, in both subject matter and the arrangement of compositional elements. Shigemasa's tonal graduations, the pelting rain and the wind-tossed hat are classic Hiroshige devices.

Sudden Storm

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Hiroshige III 'Shigemasa' (1842 - 1894)
#	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01-	An Accident at a Construction Site by the Japanese artist, Hiroshige III (Shigemasa)	Original Woodcut	c. 1875 - 1880		Sold
02.-	Harbor Scene by the Japanese artist, Hiroshige III (Shigemasa)	Original Woodcut	c. 1890	Signed, 'Hiroshige ga' in the block to the lower right.	Sold
03.-	Sudden Storm by the Japanese artist, Hiroshige III (Shigemasa)	Original Woodcut	c. 1890	Signed, 'Hiroshige ga' in the block to the lower left.	Sold

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Title:	Sudden Storm
Artist:	Hiroshige III 'Shigemasa' (1842 - 1894)
Date:	c. 1890
Medium:	Original Japanese Woodcut
Note:	"The Hiroshige name was continued by a young artist Shigemasa, who became Hiroshige III. He produced prints of interest ... showing the modernization of Japan after the restoration of the monarchy. His prints and triptychs were issued between 1868 & 1884 and document the coming of the railways, trams and brick-built buildings." *
	Hiroshige III (Shigemasa): After the 1858 death of Hiroshige, that great genius of landscape woodcuts, his leading pupil (and adopted son), Shigenobu (Japan, 1826 - 1869), married his master's daughter and took the title of Hiroshige II. In 1865 Hiroshige II divorced his wife and moved to Yokohama, working under the artistic name of 'Ryushu'. Shigemasa, another pupil of Hiroshige, quickly took advantage of the situation and assumed the title of Hiroshige III by marrying the divorced daughter.
	Unlike either Hiroshige or Hiroshige II, Hiroshige III did not dedicate his art mostly to landscape depictions and the study of nature. He inherited his title at approximately the same time as the beginning of the Meiji era which ushered in sweeping changes, mostly caused by the opening of Japan to the West. He thus directed much of his attention to the modernization and industrialization of his nation. Woodcuts portraying Western style buildings and modern methods of transportation are often seen in his oeuvre.
Reference:	* Richard Illing, The Art of Japanese Prints, New York, Gallery Books, 1983, p. 101.
Size:	13 1/2 X 9 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon 19th Japanese mulberry (rice) paper and with full margins as published around 1890. Signed, 'Hiroshige ga' in the block to the lower left. A strongly printed impression with full, unfaded colors and in excellent condition throughout. Sudden Storm represents a prime, original example of the important Meiji era art of Hiroshige III.
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