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Early Departure from the Inn at Sekifront

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Early Departure from the Inn at Seki

  • Description

    A daimyō provincial lord prepares to leave an inn at Seki, where a major government check point was located. It is very early morning. When a daimyō stayed at an inn, his name would be publicly displayed on a notice board – the tall pole in the centre foreground – and the inn would be decorated with curtains and banners bearing his family crest. Hiroshige has also included his own ‘Hiro’ crest on the two lanterns carried by the man to the left of the doorway at the back.

  • 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 › Seki (subject)
    Date
    published 1833 - 1834
    Artist/maker
    Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
    Associated people
    Hoeido (active early 18th century - late 19th century) (publisher)
    Material and technique
    woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
    Dimensions
    mount 40.3 x 55.5 cm (height x width)
    print 25.4 x 38.2 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.4295

Glossary

daimyō

  • daimyō

    ‘Feudal’ lord

Past Exhibition

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Location

    • currently in research collection

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