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Salmon Fishing in the Snow in Echigo Province

Salmon Fishing in the Snow in Echigo Province

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Utagawa Hiroshige

Salmon fishing in the wild was a smaller scale operation than commercial ocean fishing, as depicted in another print nearby. Here, fishermen with spears wait near the base of a cliff by a river where salmon will jump as they migrate upriver to spawn. The first known attempt to aid in the hatching and propagation of salmon was carried out in the eighteenth century, in a branch of the Miomote River in the Echigo province.
Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858)
Title
Salmon Fishing in the Snow in Echigo Province
Date
1835-1840
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
217 x 282 mm image
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.1983
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]

  • Meech, Julia. "Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: The Architect's Other Passion." New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and Japan Society, New York, 2001.
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 171

  • Gifts of the Ebb Tide: The Sea in Japanese Prints: Chazen Museum of Art, 6/8/2013–9/1/2013
  • Summer Breeze: The Fan in Japanese Prints: Chazen Museum of Art, 7/7/2012–9/9/2012
  • Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: The Architect's Other Passion: Japan Society Gallery, 3/26/2001–7/15/2001

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