UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858). Edo period. Rokujūyoshū meisho zue (Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces), a European mounted album, fifty-nine leaves. 34cm (13 3/8in) high x 22cm (8 5/8in) wide. Following the great success in the 1830s of Hiroshige's landscape series of the Tokaido and Kisokaido roads, the publisher Koshimuraya Heisuke embarked on the ambitious project that resulted in Sixty-odd Views of the Provinces, released between 1851 and 1853. The series marks Hiroshige's first foray in