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Archive: Sadanobu (貞信)

Description:
Sheet no. 9 from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei harimaze (Cut-out pictures of 100 views of famous places in Edo)
Signature:
Sadanobu ga
Seals:
No artist seal
Publisher:
Wataki-ban (Wataya Kihei; with seal, upper left)
Date:
circa 1858
Format:
(H x W)
Oban harimaze nishiki-e
37.2 x 25.0 cm
Impression:
Good
Condition:
Very good color; good condition (very slight soil; a few small spots; with margins on the top and left sides; one thin glue stain)
Price (USD/¥):
SOLD

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Comments:
Background

Sadanobu's series Meisho Edo hyakkei harimaze was issued circa 1858 as reduced-size and cropped versions of Utagawa Hiroshige's Meisho Edo hyakkei ("One hundred views of the famous places in Edo") of 1856-68. Each print offers five scenes from the Edo series. Compare the present example — with views clearly meant to be copies of Hiroshige's originals — with Sadanobu's Gohyaku Rakan design in the style of Hiroshige.

Harimaze ("mixed-paste prints") were images intended to be cut out from their original sheets and pasted into albums and scrapbooks, or mounted to screens.

Design

The scenes shown here are (counter-clockwise from top, then center): (1) Suruga-chô; (2) Shiba Atagoyama; (3) Kameido Umeyashiki; (4) Kameido Tenjin keidai; and (5) Yotsuya Maitô Shinjuku. Although none of the views were meant to be exact copies, it is interesting that Sadanobu reconfigured two of Hiroshige's designs to work more effectively within his segmented composition. The Suruga-chô design uses the same elements but alters the perspective so that the view is from below rather than from above, and the support post in Shiba Atagoyama was brought much closer to the messenger carrying the giant paddle, as if the viewer had relocated farther to the left.

This impression is probably a middle-edition printing. There are later-edition sheets with color shifts toward a brighter Meiji-period palette, such as the blue in the skies replaced by red.

References: OSP, nos. 300-301