Posted by Noel Chiappa (98.166.148.243) on February 16, 2012 at 20:21:59:
In Reply to: Help with Hiroshige posted by Chris on February 16, 2012 at 19:34:40:
"I'm at a loss as to whether this print is a genuine thing or a later copy"
This page might help:
http://www.viewingjapaneseprints.net/texts/topictexts/faq/faq_original.html#how_original
"I realise it's hard to ascertain from a photo"
From a high-resolution photo (or closeups of area s with lots of detail, like grass), we could probably tell if you if it is _not_ from the original blocks - although I have seen one Hiroshige that was so close to the original it was hard to tell (but I eventually concluded it was a deliberate fake - the copies usually don't put very much work into making the fine details like grass, etc, match exactly).
Noel