Sakanoshita

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Utagawa Hiroshige
Japan
1797 – 1858

Sakanoshita
from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi)
c.1833-34
woodblock print, ink and colour on paper
Place made
Edo (Tokyo)
Medium
woodblock print, ink and colour on paper
Dimensions
18.0 x 25.3 cm (sheet)
16.4 x 22.3 cm (image)
Credit line
Elder Bequest Fund 1971
Accession number
712G6
Signature and date
Signed c.r., pigment "広重" translates to "Utagawa Hiroshige". Not dated.
Provenance
Created by Utagawa Hiroshige, Edo, C. 1833-34; [Grammar Galleries, Adelaide]; purchased by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1971.
Media category
Print
Collection area
Asian art - Japan

  • Sakashita was the forty-eighth station along the Tōkaidō Road and today is included in Mie prefecture. Hiroshige has presented the rest stop and the spectacular view of Fudesute Mountain. The name ’Fude sute’ means ’to throw away the brush’ and refers to a well-known incident of the Muromachi period (1392–1573), when a famous brush-and-ink painter was so overwhelmed by the unique qualities of this view that he discarded his brush.

    Utagawa Hiroshige made numerous editions of his Tōkaidō Road series throughout his life. This version is known as the Aritaya Tōkaidō edition and refers to the publisher Aritaya Seiemon (c.1834–1862), who worked with many of the most celebrated print designers of the mid-nineteenth century.

    Russell Kelty, Curator of Asian Art