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.
Drum Bridge at Kameidō Tenjin Shrine
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Description
Kameidō Tenjin Shrine, with its steeply arched ‘drum bridge’, was famous for its wisteria blossom in springtime. Through hanging wisteria flowers some people can be seen crossing the bridge while others sit beneath wisteria trellises in the background. Three swallows fly over the lake.
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Details
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō › Meguro › Drum bridge (subject)Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō › Kameido Tenjin Shrine (subject)
- 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 55.5 x 40.3 cm (height x width)
sheet 35.1 x 24.4 cm (height x width)
print 33.9 x 22.3 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.4359
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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. 14 on pp. 10 - 11, p. 10, illus. p. 25 pl. 14
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
As with the previous print [EAX.4358], the view is seen through flowers; here wisteria. The drum bridge (now replaced in ferro-concrete) is of exaggerated height here and probably represents the larger of two bridges at the site, the ‘Male’ bridge.
Notice
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