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Hiroshige's Japan: Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road

(from 9th Dec 2014 until 16th Feb 2015)

Explore works by one of the great masters of the Japanese landscape print, Utagawa Hiroshige.

Detail of 'Morning Mist at Mishima', by Utagawa Hiroshige I, 1833-1834 (Museum no: EAX.4269)
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Ejiri: Tago Bay and Miho no Matsubara

  • Description

    Tago Bay and the pine grove at Miho were among the most famous scenic spots on the Tōkaidō. Here Hiroshige shows fishing boats and nets drying on the shore in the foreground, while larger boats sail along the Okitsu River behind them. Hiroshige has included elements of Western perspective in this print, notably in the way that the boats decrease in size towards the horizon.

  • Details

    Series
    Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations
    Associated place
    AsiaJapanHonshūKantōTōkyō prefecture Tōkyō (place of creation)
    AsiaJapanHonshūKantōTōkyō prefecture Tōkyō (place of publication)
    AsiaJapanHonshūTōkaidō road Ejiri (subject)
    Date
    designed 1855
    Artist/maker
    Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
    Associated people
    Kōeidō (active c. 1830 - 1880) (publisher)
    Tsutaya Kichizō (active c. 1830 - 1880) (publisher)
    Material and technique
    woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
    Dimensions
    mount 55.4 x 40.2 cm (height x width)
    print 34.1 x 72.7 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
    Accession no.
    EAX.4374

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