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Clearing After Snow at Nihonbashi Bridge
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Details
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Mount Fuji (subject)
- Date
- designed 1856
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
- Associated people
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Uoya Eikichi (active mid-19th century) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
- Dimensions
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mount 55.9 x 40.6 cm (height x width)
sheet 36.2 x 24.5 cm (height x width)
print 34 x 22.5 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.4347
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, Hiroshige's Views of Mount Fuji: A Selection of Woodblock Print Views of Mount Fuji, Including Examples from the Series 'The Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji', of 1858-9, by Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001), no. 16 on p. 13, illus. p. 29 pl. 16
Impey, Oliver, Hiroshige's Views of Tokyo: A Selection from the Woodblock-Print Series ‘One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo’ by Ando Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1993), no. 1 on p. 9, illus. p. 12 pl. 1
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Hiroshige’s Views of Tokyo
Nihonbashi is at the centre of downtown Tokyo; just as it was in Hiroshige's time. It was that point from which all distances in Japan were measured, and was the first of the 'Stations' of the Tokaido and the Kisokaido roads, though never counted in the total of fifty-three or sixty-nine respectively. -
Hiroshige’s Views of Mount Fuji
This series, one of Hiroshige’s most successful, was issued late in his life, when some of the prints may have been designed by his son-in-law, Hiroshige II; it was followed by the "Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji”. The scene here contrasts with the previous print [EAX.4834]; here the bright sunshine following a night of snow enables on to see Fuji looking far too large for the great distance (some 100 kilometres); this is the geographical centre of Tokyo.
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