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Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival (Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi m?de), no. 101 from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival (Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi m?de), no. 101 from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

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Utagawa Hiroshige

Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858)
Title
Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival (Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi m?de), no. 101 from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)
Date
11/1857
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
337 x 225 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.1684
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • "SchoolsMusuemsART (SMART) Project." Madison, WI: Madison Metropolitan School District, 2002.
  • Walker Art Center. "Tokyo: Form and Spirit." 1986. p. 106
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Summer 1999. pp. 13, back cover
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ando Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1982. p. 46, cat. no. 101
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 134

  • Japanese Masterworks: Woodblock Prints from the Chazen Museum of Art Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 5/6/2016–8/14/2016
  • Splendors of Edo: Japanese Prints, 1750-1930: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 8/7/1999–10/10/1999
  • Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/18/1982–5/23/1982

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