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The Narrow Ivy-Covered Road at Mount Utsu near Okabefront

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The Narrow Ivy-Covered Road at Mount Utsu near Okabe

  • Description

    The print title refers to a famous episode in the 11th-century literary classic, the Tales of Ise, in which the hero travels towards Mount Utsu along a narrow road overgrown with ivy. Here the line of foot travellers and the winding road draw the eye past a small tea hut towards the huge mountain at the back. The grain of the woodblock adds to the depiction of clouds and mist shrouding the mountain.

  • Details

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    Series
    Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations
    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 › Shizuoka prefecture › Okabe (subject)
    Date
    designed 1855
    Artist/maker
    Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
    Associated people
    Kōeidō (active c. 1830 - 1880) (publisher)
    Tsutaya Kichizō (active c. 1830 - 1880) (publisher)
    Material and technique
    woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
    Dimensions
    mount 55.8 x 40.6 cm (height x width)
    print 36 x 23.9 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.4375

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    • currently in research collection

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