Autumn Moon in Ishiyama

Autumn Moon in Ishiyama is an original artwork realized in 1863 by Utagawa Yoshitsuya (February 22, 1822 – August 2, 1866)

Oban.

From the series "Tokaido meisho no uchi", Famous stations of the Tokaido Road, the sheet "Ishiuama no Akigetsu", Autumn Moon in Ishiyama. 

Landscape at Lake Biwa in full moon, at the left the Ishiyama temple on the rocky slope of Mount Hira, where Murasaki Shikibu wrote the Genji Novel, below the Seta Bridge an two standards of a daimyo train.

Signed: Ichieisai Yoshitsuya ga.

Very good impression with Bokashi, Mokumezuri and Baren print lines, a little bit soiled, stitching holes along left margin and a few small wormholes, lower right corner rounded, lower margin soiled. 

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Utagawa Yoshitsuya (February 22, 1822 – August 2, 1866), also known as Koko Yoshitsuya and as Ichieisai Yoshitsuya, was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Yoshitsuya was a student of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and, like his teacher, is best known for his woodblock prints of warriors. Yoshitsuya also produced many advertisements and designs for tattoos.