Iwatake Mushroom

HIROSHIGE III

Iwatake mushroom, Suo Province. One of 118 prints in the series Dai Nippon Bussan Zue (Products of Greater Japan), issued in August 1877 to coincide with the opening of Japan’s first National Industrial Exposition (Naikoku Kangyō Hakurankai) held in Tokyo’s Ueno Park.

 

Date: 1877