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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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The Narrow Ivy-Covered Road at Mount Utsu near Okabe

  • Description

    The print title refers to a famous episode in the 11th-century literary classic, the Tales of Ise, in which the hero travels towards Mount Utsu along a narrow road overgrown with ivy. Here the line of foot travellers and the winding road draw the eye past a small tea hut towards the huge mountain at the back. The grain of the woodblock adds to the depiction of clouds and mist shrouding the mountain.

  • Details

    Series
    Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations
    Associated place
    AsiaJapanHonshūKantōTōkyō prefecture Tōkyō (place of creation)
    AsiaJapanHonshūKantōTōkyō prefecture Tōkyō (place of publication)
    AsiaJapanHonshūShizuoka prefecture Okabe (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 55.8 x 40.6 cm (height x width)
    print 36 x 23.9 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.4375

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