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Hiroshige’s Views of Mount Fuji

A catalogue of the Ashmolean’s collection of woodblock print views of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige (1797-1858) by Oliver Impey (published Oxford, 2001).

Hiroshige’s Views of Mount Fuji by Oliver Impey

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Futamigaura in Ise Province

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    • currently in research collection

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  • Hiroshige’s Views of Mount Fuji by Oliver Impey

    Hiroshige’s Views of Mount Fuji

    The celebrated husband-and-wife rocks are bound together with great ropes, renewed each January, while a torii sits on the highest point. In the Edo period, the water was famously clean, and pilgrims would bathe here before visiting the Ise shrines.
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