The Ide Jewel River in Yamashiro Province (Yamashiro ide no Tamagawa)

Utagawa Hiroshige
Japan
1797 – 1858

The Ide Jewel River in Yamashiro Province (Yamashiro ide no Tamagawa)
no. 3 from the series The six jewel rivers in various provinces (shokoku mu tamagawa)
1857
woodblock print, ink and colour on paper
Place made
Edo (Tokyo)
Medium
woodblock print, ink and colour on paper
Dimensions
34.2 x 23.1 cm (image oban)
35.0 x 24.5 cm (sheet)
Credit line
Gift of Brian and Barbara Crisp in memory of their son Andrew 2003
Accession number
20033G32
Signature and date
Signed in block, l.r., "[Hiroshige's signature]". Dated in block, l.r., "[date seal: snake II (1857/XI)]"
Provenance
Created by Utagawa Hiroshige, Edo, 1857; Brian and Barbara Crisp collection; gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2003.
Media category
Print
Collection area
Asian art - Japan
Image credit
Photos: AGSA

  • Ejiri-juku was the eighteenth station of the fifty-three

    stations of the Tōkaidō Road in present-day Shizuoka

    prefecture. The castle town had a famous view,

    described as the ’Pine Grove at Miho’, which included

    a seven-kilometre seashore lined with pine trees and

    here depicted with sailboats.

     

    Utagawa Hiroshige is recognised as a master of

    the ukiyo-e woodblock printing tradition, having

    created eight thousand print designs of everyday

    life and landscape in Edo-period (1615–1868) Japan.

    Hiroshige’s prolific output was largely due to his being

    paid very little for each series.

    Russell Kelty, Curator of Asian Art

     

  • [Book] Lane, Richard. Images from the floating world : the Japanese print, including an illustrated dictionary of Ukiyo-e.
  • [Catalogue] Rijksmuseum. 2001. Surimono: Poetry and Image in Japanese prints. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing.
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  • [Catalogue] 1983. The Albuquerque Museum catalogue. n.p.: The Albuquerque Museum.