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Komakata Hall and Azuma Bridge
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Details
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Associated place
- 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)
- 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 36.3 x 24.4 cm (height x width)
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- Technique index
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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.4357
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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. 12 on p. 10, illus. p. 23 pl. 12
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 cuckoo (hototogisu) near the Komakata Hall would instantly suggest to Hiroshige’s contemporaries the lament of loneliness at dawn, as in the famous poem by the courtesan Takao ‘Are you now, my love, near Komakata? Cry of the cuckoo’.
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