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Record of Famous Sights of the Tōkaidō Road
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Description
This set of albums is a travel guide depicting sights along the Tōkaidō Road – the main highway linking Japan’s capital Edo with Kyoto, where the Emperor lived. Each volume contains busy scenes of station towns along the route, followed by written descriptions. Shown here are Edo, with the shogun’s castle in the background (right) and the mountain town of Hakone (left).
The artist was an anonymous town painter working in the Tosa style. The gold cloud patterns framing the paintings are a traditional decorative device, focusing attention on the images between them. The central gold bands separate the foreground scenes of bustling activity from the more distant background.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (probable place of creation)
- Date
- late 17th century
- Artist/maker
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formerly attributed to Tosa Mitsuoki (1617 - 1691) (artist)style of Tosa School (early 15th century - late 19th century)
- Material and technique
- ink, colour, gold, and gold dust on paper; bound with brocade
- Dimensions
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closed 17.5 x 14.5 x 2 cm (height x width x depth)
double page 17.5 x 28.1 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by C. W. Christie-Miller, 1959.
- Accession no.
- EA1959.85.i
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Further reading
Katz, Janice, Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, with an introductory essay by Oliver Impey (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003), no. 51 on pp. 174-176, p. 13 & 153, illus. pp. 174-177
Location
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- currently in research collection
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