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In the Mountains of Izu Province
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Description
Here Mount Fuji is viewed beyond a waterfall. On the paths to the left and right two lone figures are trudging upwards,carrying heavy loads on their backs. The mountains are printed almost entirely in blue. When brilliantly-coloured ‘Prussian blue’ pigment was first introduced in the 1830s, it was such a novelty that some publishers produced aizuri-e (blue-printed pictures using only shades of blue) for the fascinated public.
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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 40.3 cm (height x width)
print 37.2 x 23.3 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.4386
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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. 13 on p. 12, illus. p. 26 pl. 13
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
A view-point in the mountains around the Izu peninsula. The falls would certainly have been accessible as sight-seeing place by the 1850s, and this might represent a more-or-less accurate view; the road clearly continues past the fall, as is indicated top right.
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