For decades, if you wanted to talk about Japanese prints, the conversation usually began and ended with Hokusai’s Great Wave. The market for Japanese prints has quietly become one of the auction world’s success stories. In his view, the best Hiroshige prints remain undervalued when compared with Hokusai. That is precisely the kind of print Medaugh spent more than half his life pursuing. By the end, he had assembled roughly 700 Hiroshige works, always chasing the earliest impressions in the best condition.