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Changing Porters and Horses at Fujiedafront

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Changing Porters and Horses at Fujieda

  • Description

    Porters load and unload horses as they prepare for the next stage of their journey. Most travellers walked along the Tōkaidō, but at each station porters, palanquins, bearers and horses could be hired to transport people or baggage. While most of the prints in the series combined landscape and figures, Hiroshige varied the emphasis of his views widely: in some prints the scenery dominated, in others people and landscape were given equal weight; here the focus is entirely on human activity.

  • 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 › Fujieda (subject)
    Date
    published 1833 - 1834
    Artist/maker
    Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
    Associated people
    Hoeido (active early 18th century - late 19th century) (publisher)
    Material and technique
    woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
    Dimensions
    mount 40.6 x 55.6 cm (height x width)
    print 25.5 x 37.5 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.4276

  • Further reading

    Pollard, Clare, Mitsuko Ito, Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2014), no.5, p.46, illus. p.47

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Location

    • currently in research collection

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