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The Sukiya Embankment in the Eastern Capital
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Description
Mount Fuji is shown in winter, seen from the moat of Edo Castle (now Tokyo’s Imperial Palace), the rampart of the castle visible on the right. In the centre porters carry their across the water towards Sukiya Gate. In the background can be seen the long outer walls of the Edo residence of the Nabeshima clan, the lords of Saga province.
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Details
- Series
- Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Mount Fuji (subject)
- Date
- designed 1858, published 1858 - 1859
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826 - 1869) (designer)
- Associated people
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Tsutaya Kichizō (active c. 1830 - 1880) (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 35.3 x 23.9 cm (height x width)
print 33.6 x 22.1 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.4379
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, Hiroshige's Views of Mount Fuji: A Selection of Woodblock Print Views of Mount Fuji, Including Examples from the Series 'The Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji', of 1858-9, by Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001), no. 14 on p. 12, illus. p. 27 pl. 14
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 Mount Fuji
In this snow scene, the outer wall of Edo Castle, now the Imperial palace, rises from the moat. On the left side, then a shore-line, what one would see today is Hibiya-dori, with its high rise buildings, including the Imperial Hotel. Sukiya itself is now laid out in small streets alongside Ginza.
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