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Okitsu, Ejiri, Yui, and Fuchū, no. 5 from the series Cutouts for the Fifty-three Stations (Gojūsan tsugi harimaze)

Okitsu, Ejiri, Yui, and Fuchū, no. 5 from the series Cutouts for the Fifty-three Stations (Gojūsan tsugi harimaze)

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Utagawa Hiroshige

The Tōkaidō, or “eastern sea road,” was an important preindustrial roadway connecting Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto in Japan. Fifty-three official stations along the Tōkaidō offered travelers places to stop for a meal, shop for supplies, enjoy local entertainment, and find lodging. This woodcut is from a series in which Hiroshige designed 'harimaze-e,' or “mixed picture” prints featuring groups of vignettes representing different Tōkaidō stations. In this print, for example, the scene of a seated woman picking tea leaves signifies the station Fuchū. Since at least the seventeenth century, Fuchū was known for its cultivation of tea along the eastern bank of the nearby Abe River.
Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858)
Title
Okitsu, Ejiri, Yui, and Fuchū, no. 5 from the series Cutouts for the Fifty-three Stations (Gojūsan tsugi harimaze)
Date
12/1852
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
335 x 232 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.2046
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]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Hiroshige ten: Seitan 200-shunen kinen (200th Anniversary Hiroshige Exhibition)." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art; Japan: Bun You Associates, 1996. no. 246

  • 200th Anniversary Hiroshige Exhibition (Hiroshige ten: seiten 200-shunen kinen): Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/29/1996–12/8/1996

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