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Suruga Street
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Details
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Mount Fuji (subject)
- Date
- 1856 - 1858
- 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)Mitsui family (heraldry on object)Mitsukoshi (established 1673) (subject)
- Material and technique
- woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
- Dimensions
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mount 55.9 x 40.6 cm (height x width)
sheet 35.7 x 24.2 cm (height x width)
print 34.4 x 22.2 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.4348
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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. 3 on p. 9, illus. p. 14 pl. 3
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Hiroshige’s Views of Tokyo
It may be that this famous street was actually laid out to take advantage of the view of the distant Fuji, no doubt more often visible then than now. Hiroshige has used western style perspective to exaggerate this view. The shops are marked with the crest of the Mistui, from which is derived the name Mitsukoshi. The shop on the left is today Mitsukoshi, that on the right, the Mitsui Bank.
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