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Horikiri Iris Garden
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Details
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Associated place
- 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 34.6 x 22.9 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
- Accession no.
- EAX.4358
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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. 13 on p. 10, illus. p. 24 pl. 13
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Hiroshige’s Views of Tokyo
The cultivation of hanashobu (Iris laevigata) probably began in this area of marsh in the seventeenth century. This print was made in 1857, already five years after the introduction into Europe of this iris by Franz Phillip von Siebold, doctor to the Dutch trading-station at Deshima. Part of this area is now a public park where the hanashobu flowers in June.
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