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Hara
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Description
The poem refers to how enormous Mount Fuji appears viewed from Hara, and Hiroshige has emphasized the mountain's height is by extending its peak beyond the frame of the picture.
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Details
- Series
- Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Tōkaidō road › Hara (subject)Asia › Japan › Honshū › Mount Fuji (subject)
- Date
- 1840 - 1842
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
- Associated people
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Kikakudō (active c.1800 - 1875) (publisher)Sanoya Kihei (active c. 1801 - 1878) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
- Dimensions
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mount 27.8 x 40.7 cm (height x width)
print 16.2 x 21.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
- Accession no.
- EAX.4415
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Hiroshige's Japan: Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road
(from 9th Dec 2014 until 16th Feb 2015)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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