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Hatsune riding grounds, Bakuro-chō
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Description
The four colourful strips of cloth in the foreground of this print have been hung out to dry by dyers. In some impressions of the print, Hiroshige emphasizes the texture of the cloth by embossing a pattern on the surface of one of the strips. In the background stands one of the many fire-watch towers built across the city of Edo.
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Details
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
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- 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 55.6 x 40.6 cm (height x width)
sheet 35 x 21.7 cm (height x width)
print 34.9 x 21.6 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Oswald J. Couldrey, 1958.
- Accession no.
- EA1958.229
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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. 2 on p. 9, illus. p. 13 pl. 2
Past Exhibition
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Location
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- currently in research collection
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Hiroshige’s Views of Tokyo
Dyers have taken to using the open space of the former riding grounds, and their textiles hang out to dry. In the middle distance is the fire-watching tower, reminder of the ever-present danger to Tokyo of fires generated by earthquakes, and of the fact that Hiroshige was a firewatcher by hereditary profession.
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