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The ‘Pine of Success’ at the Onmaya Embankment, Asakusa River
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Description
It is a starlit evening on the Asakusa River. Hanging over the river in the foreground is the ‘Pine of Success’, a famous landmark in Edo, especially for those on their way to the Yoshiwara pleasure district. Behind the lowered blinds of the roofed pleasure boat beneath the tree, is the silhouette of a woman's head and shoulders. Two pairs of clogs rest in the bow of the boat, hinting at a tryst on board.
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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 40.3 cm (height x width)
sheet 36.2 x 24.8 cm (height x width)
print 33.9 x 22.6 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.4356
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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. 11 onn p. 10, illus. p. 22 pl. 11
Glossary
Yoshiwara
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Yoshiwara
The Yoshiwara was the licensed pleasure district in Edo (Tokyo), where courtesans resided.
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
Officially named after its growth in a difficult place, the name of the pine tree is also a pun on ‘results’; getting one’s value for money in the Yoshiwara, perhaps on one of the pleasure boats moored here, to which passengers are going on the ferries.
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