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- Language: Japanese
- Creators: Utagawa Hiroshige
- Creators: 歌川 定房
- Creators: Chō Hori
- Creators: Kitagawa Utamaro
ContributorsKitagawa Utamaro (Artist) / 喜多川 歌麿 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1797 to 1801
Description
Triptych depicting courtesans, a farmer with with two baskets of eggplant, and a falconer and his falcon being ferried across a river, with Mt. Fuji in the background.
A legend holds that to dream about Mt. Fuji, falcons and eggplant on the first night of the New Year is an omen of good fortune.
A legend holds that to dream about Mt. Fuji, falcons and eggplant on the first night of the New Year is an omen of good fortune.
ContributorsUtagawa Hiroshige (Artist) / 歌川 広重 (Artist)
Created1848
Description
Woodblock-printed book containing miscellaneous sketches of people, animals and landscapes.
ContributorsAnonymous (Art copyist) / Utagawa Hiroshige (Artist) / 歌川 広重 (Artist)
Created1920 to 1929
DescriptionThis is an anonymous late Taishō or early Shōwa-era copy of a print from Utagawa Hiroshige's series, Famous Places of the Eastern Capital 東都名所 (c. 1845). The copyist has removed or smoothed out many details to bring the print in line with the contemporary shin hanga aesthetic.
ContributorsUtagawa Hiroshige (Artist) / 歌川 広重 (Artist) / Tsutaya Kichizō (Publisher) / 蔦屋吉蔵 (Publisher)
Created1847 to 1848
Description
This print is the first in the Tsutaya Kichizō edition of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Road and depicts Nihonbashi Bridge in Edo, which the traveler would cross on the way to the first station at Shinagawa.
ContributorsUtagawa Sadafusa (Artist) / 歌川 定房 (Artist) / Kawaguchiya Chōzō (Publisher) / 川口屋 長蔵 (Publisher)
Created1835
DescriptionActor Sawamura Tossho portrays Matsuwaka, a character from the play Hana Butai Yoshiya Otoko 花舞台丹前侠客.
ContributorsUtagawa Sadafusa (Artist) / 歌川 定房 (Artist) / Kawaguchiya Chōzō (Publisher) / 川口屋 長蔵 (Publisher)
Created1835
Description
Actor Iwai Hanshiro portrays Seigen, a character from the play Hana Butai Yoshiya Otoko 花舞台丹前侠客.
ContributorsUtagawa Hiroshige (Artist) / 歌川 広重 (Artist) / Ezakiya Kichibei (Publisher) / 江崎屋吉兵衛 (Publisher)
Created1841 to 1842
DescriptionThis print is number 46 of the Gyōsho edition of Hiroshige’s 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Road. It depicts the post house at Shōno (in present-day Mie prefecture), where travelers are changing horses mid-journey along the Tōkaidō Road.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada II (Artist) / 歌川 国定 (Artist) / Chō Hori (Contributor) / 長彫 (Contributor) / Maruya Kyūshirō (Publisher) / 丸屋久四郎 (Publisher)
Created1864
Description
Triptych by Utagawa Kunisada II depicting a scene from the kabuki play Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji (The Imitation Murasaki and the Rustic Genji), a dramatization of a popular book by Ryūtei Tanehiko 柳亭 種彦 that satirizes the Tale of Genji.