Japanese Landscape Prints
(from 1st Nov 2009 until 25th Apr 2010)View the striking mountains, rivers, and cities of Japan in the woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige.
The Suijin Woods and Massaki on the Sumida River
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Description
Hiroshige has used the trunk and branches of the blossoming cherry tree in the foreground as a striking framing device for this peaceful view over the Sumidagawa, Edo's most important river. The Suijin Shrine, dedicated to the river itself, can be seen in the lower right-hand corner of the print.
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Details
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Associated place
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- Date
- designed 1856
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
- Associated people
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Uoya Eikichi (active mid-19th century) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
- Dimensions
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mount 55.4 x 40.3 cm (height x width)
sheet 36.3 x 24.5 cm (height x width)
print 34.2 x 22.5 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.4351
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, Hiroshige's Views of Tokyo: A Selection from the Woodblock-Print Series ‘One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo’ by Ando Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1993), no. 4 on p.9, p. 9, illus. p. 15 pl. 4
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Publications online
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Hiroshige’s Views of Tokyo
Through the dramatic and beautiful framing double cherry, the viewer looks from the embankment over the shrine. The pedestrians at left walk towards the Hashiba Ferry, and in the distance in Mount Tsukuba.
Notice
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