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Rough Sea at the Naruto in Awa Province, No. 55 from the series Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty Odd Provinces, 1855

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Rough Sea at the Naruto in Awa Province, No. 55 from the series Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty Odd Provinces, 1855, by Ichiryusai Hiroshige

Rough Sea at the Naruto in Awa Province, No. 55 from the series Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty Odd Provinces, 1855
Ichiryusai Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Woodblock print on paper, 13 5/8 x 9 inches
Gibbes Museum of Art, Gift of Mary Alston Read Simms from the collection of Motte Alston Read in memory of him and his mother, Jane Ladson Alston Read (1948.004.0369)

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