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Yūhi Hill and Drum Bridge at Meguro
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Description
The rounded stone bridge in this winter landscape was known as the ‘Drum Bridge at Meguro’, because of its shape. It was close to a temple that was a popular destination for visitors around New Year’s Day. Perhaps this is Hiroshige’s reason for showing it in the snow.
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Details
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō › Meguro › Drum bridge (subject)
- Date
- designed 1857
- 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 40.2 cm (height x width)
print 37.5 x 25.1 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.4368
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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. 19 on p. 11, illus. p. 30 pl. 19
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
A particularly successful print of a lonely snow scene, the areas of the snow on the branches and elsewhere simply left in the white, as would have been done by a contemporary Shijo-school painter.
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