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Lake at Hakone
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Description
Fuji is seen here over green and yellow cliffs on the shores of Lake Ashino in Hakone. This was Hiroshige’s last series, inspired by the success of Hokusai’s original ‘Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji’. He died before the series was completed, and it is thought that his successor, Hiroshige II, designed the final prints.
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Details
- Series
- Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Mount Fuji (subject)Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Kanagawa prefecture (Lake Ashino) (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 40.2 cm (height x width)
print 36.5 x 24.5 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.4385
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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. 10 on p. 12, illus. p. 23 pl. 10
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
The view of Fuji over the Ashino lake at Hakone was and is justly famous. The lake is large, perhaps some eight kilometres long, and Hiroshige’s depiction is perhaps wilfully aberrant.
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