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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)
Spring Rain at Tsuchiyamafront

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Spring Rain at Tsuchiyama

  • Description

    A group of travellers – probably a daimyō procession – crosses a wooden bridge during a heavy downpour. Hiroshige has skilfully depicted the rain by using criss-cross diagonal lines in slightly different shades of grey, which make a striking contrast with the blue of the raging river. In earlier impressions, some of the lines were printed in white. The building just visible through the cryptomeria trees in the background is probably the Tamura Shrine.

  • Details

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    Series
    Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road
    Associated place
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of creation)
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of publication)
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Tōkaidō road › Tsuchiyama (subject)
    Date
    published 1833 - 1834
    Artist/maker
    Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
    Associated people
    Hoeido (active early 18th century - late 19th century) (publisher)
    Takenouchi Magohachi (active c. 1833 - 1850) (publisher)
    Material and technique
    woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
    Dimensions
    mount 55.9 x 40.9 cm (height x width)
    print 36 x 24.6 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed › relief print › woodcut › colour woodcut
    Object type index
    visual representation › print
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
    Accession no.
    EAX.4297

  • Further reading

    Pollard, Clare, Mitsuko Ito, Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2014), illus. p.14

Glossary

daimyō

  • daimyō

    ‘Feudal’ lord

Past Exhibition

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