‘Sakana-dzukushi tobiuo ishimochi yuri’ -魚尽くし 飛び魚 イシモチ 百合(Flying fish, Silver white croaker ,Lily)

Description

Original woodblock print – Paper – Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) – ‘Sakana-dzukushi tobiuo ishimochi yuri’ -魚尽くし 飛び魚 イシモチ 百合(Flying fish, Silver white croaker ,Lily)- Japan-1860-1890

Utagawa Hiroshige was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.

Hiroshige was as good at drawing flora and fauna as landscape paintings.

There are 20 series of this art work.

There are 20 series of this work.
And 32 kinds of fish and 19 kinds of plants are drawn.

his work depicts lilies, flying fish, and Silver white croaker.

This woodblock print is a post-print work around the end of the Edo period.

As it is an old one, it has dirt, holes, and faded parts.