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Paulownia Plantation, Akasaka
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Description
At Akasaka there was a large reservoir that formed part of the outer moat of Edo Castle. In the early 1700s paulownia trees were planted to reinforce the bank of the pond. In this print the paulownia trees in the foreground dominate the composition, dwarfing the temple buildings and samurai homes on the far bank of the lake.
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Details
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Associated place
- Date
- designed 1856
- 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 36.9 x 24.9 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.4355
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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. 8 on p. 10, illus. p. 19 pl. 8
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
Seen past a kiri tree (Paulownia) is the former Outer Moat of Edo Castle, now the main road between Asaka-Mitsuke and Toranomon. The Paulownia fields kiribatake of the title may have been decorative rather than commercial even then.
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