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The Suruga Bank of the Ōi River Near Shimadafront

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The Suruga Bank of the Ōi River Near Shimada

  • Description

    A daimyō procession begins to cross the Ōi River. During the Edo period the government restricted the number of permanent bridges over major rivers, as a means of preventing easy access to Edo by enemy forces. Local porters – the figures in loincloths here – could be hired to carry people and luggage through the water. This print has a pronounced bird’s eye view, reminiscent of the printed travel guidebooks to which Hiroshige looked for inspiration.

  • Details

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    Series
    Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road
    Associated place
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of creation)
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of publication)
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Tōkaidō road › Shimada (subject)
    Date
    published 1833 - 1834
    Artist/maker
    Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
    Associated people
    Hoeido (active early 18th century - late 19th century) (publisher)
    Takenouchi Magohachi (active c. 1833 - 1850) (publisher)
    Material and technique
    woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
    Dimensions
    mount 40.6 x 55.9 cm (height x width)
    print 23.1 x 36.8 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed › relief print › woodcut › colour woodcut
    Object type index
    visual representation › print
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
    Accession no.
    EAX.4277

  • Further reading

    Pollard, Clare, Mitsuko Ito, Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2014), no.6, p.48, illus. p.49

Glossary

daimyō

  • daimyō

    ‘Feudal’ lord

Past Exhibition

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Location

    • currently in research collection

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