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Jūmantsubo Plain at Susaki, near Fukagawa
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Description
An eagle hovers, ready to swoop. His outspread wings and claws frame the desolate winter landscape in a striking compositional device. The powerful form of the eagle contrasts with the tiny trees, houses and the wooden bucket floating in the bay below.
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Details
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Associated place
- Date
- 1856 - 1858
- 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 55.8 x 40.5 cm (height x width)
print 34 x 24 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.4367
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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. 18 on p. 11, illus. p. 29 pl. 18
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Hiroshige’s Views of Tokyo
One of the most celebrated of the series, the wide snow-scene is framed not between flowers, as we have seen before, but under a great Golden Eagle, making it one of the most dramatic prints in all Hiroshige’s oeuvre.
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