Hiroshige II's series 'Six Jewel Rivers in the Provinces (Shokoku mu tamagawa)'

Hiroshige II's series 'Six Jewel Rivers in the Provinces (Shokoku mu tamagawa)' (1863)

Introduction

This page attempts to catalog all known prints in Hiroshige II's series 'Shokoku mu tamagawa (諸國六玉河 - Six Jewel Rivers in the Provinces)'.

The series title is in the vertical rectangular cartouche in the top right corner; the title of each individual print is in the fan-shaped cartouche to its left.

The series dates from the end of middle period of Hiroshige II's career, when he was about thirty-seven years old. At this point, he was using the name 'Hiroshige', since his master Hiroshige I had died (in 1858), and Hiroshige II had taken over the gō 'Hiroshige'; the prints in this series are signed 'Hiroshige'.

Series of prints on the theme of the Six Jewel Rivers were popular in the genre of landscape prints. The name is often written with the characters 玉川.

Technical details

Dates: 1863 (Boar), 11th month
Size: vertical ōban
Signed: Hiroshige ga

The Prints

To see a larger, roughly full-screen, image of any print, if there is one available, please click on the thumbnail; these larger images are sized to produce fine detail, and are only moderately compressed.

Date	Title (Kanji)	Title (Rōmaji)	Title (English)
1863/?	摂津檮衣之玉川	Settsu Kinuta no Tamagawa	Jewel River Kinuta in Settsu Province
1863/?	近江野路之玉川	Ōmi Noji no Tamagawa	Jewel River Noji in Ōmi Province
1863/11	紀伊高野之玉河	Kii kōya no tamagawa	Jewel River Kōya in Kii Province
1863/?	武蔵調布之玉川	Musashi Chōfu no Tamagawa	Jewel River of Chōfu in Musashi Province
1863/11?	陸奥野田之玉河	Mutsu Noda no Tamagawa	Jewel River of Noda in Mutsu Province

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Last updated: 6/April/2018