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Cherry Trees in Full Bloom at Mount Asuka
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Details
- Series
- Famous Views of the Eastern Capital
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Mount Fuji (subject)
- Date
- 1843 - 1847
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
- Associated people
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Yamamotoya Heikichi (active early 19th century - 1886) (publisher)Tanaka Heijirō (active c. 1843 - 1847) (censor)
- Material and technique
- woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
- Dimensions
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mount 40.2 x 55.3 cm (height x width)
print 24.5 x 36.4 cm (height x width)
27 x 39.5 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.4704
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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. 18 on p. 13, illus. p. 30 pl. 18
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 famous place for cherry-blossom viewing in the spring, this is now a park. The monument, an engraved stone, is called Asuka-yama no hi; it was erected in 1737 and commemorates in scholarly and difficult script, Tokugawa Yoshimune, who was a frequent visitor to the area in cherry-blossom time. Since Hiroshige’s time, two other similar monuments have been erected here.
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