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Yūhi Hill at Meguro in the Eastern Capital
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Description
Mount Fuji is seen here beyond the branches of two maple trees in autumn. In the blue of the river and sky Hiroshige has used the technique known as bokashi, where pigment is partially wiped off the woodblocks before printing to give a gradation of colour.
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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 55.5 x 40.6 cm (height x width)
print 33.2 x 22 cm (height x width)
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- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
- Accession no.
- EAX.4380
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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. 2 on p. 11, illus. p. 15 pl. 2
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
Maple trees on a hillside almost obscure the view of the mountain which, although it is spring, is covered in snow.
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