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.
Yūhi Hill and Drum Bridge at Meguro
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Description
The rounded stone bridge in this winter landscape was known as the ‘Drum Bridge at Meguro’, because of its shape. It was close to a temple that was a popular destination for visitors around New Year’s Day. Perhaps this is Hiroshige’s reason for showing it in the snow.
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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)
- Date
- designed 1857
- 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 40.2 cm (height x width)
print 37.5 x 25.1 cm (height x width)
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- Technique index
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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.4368
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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. 19 on p. 11, illus. p. 30 pl. 19
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
A particularly successful print of a lonely snow scene, the areas of the snow on the branches and elsewhere simply left in the white, as would have been done by a contemporary Shijo-school painter.
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