Kanaya: View of the Ōi River from the Uphill Road (Kanaya, Sakamichi yori Ōigawa chōbō 金谷 坂道より大井川眺望), from the series “Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations” (Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue 五十三次名所図会)
Kanaya: View of the Ōi River from the Uphill Road (Kanaya, Sakamichi yori Ōigawa chōbō 金谷 坂道より大井川眺望), from the series “Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations” (Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue 五十三次名所図会)

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Kanaya: View of the Ōi River from the Uphill Road (Kanaya, Sakamichi yori Ōigawa chōbō 金谷 坂道より大井川眺望), from the series “Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations” (Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue 五十三次名所図会),

ca. 1855

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重, 1797–1858; born and died Tokyo, Japan
Japanese
Edo period, 1603–1868
1996-214
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Asian Art website: Kanaya

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Title
Kanaya: View of the Ōi River from the Uphill Road (Kanaya, Sakamichi yori Ōigawa chōbō 金谷 坂道より大井川眺望), from the series “Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations” (Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue 五十三次名所図会)
Dates

ca. 1855

Maker
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重
Medium
Woodblock print (ōban tate-e format); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
block: 34.2 x 22.4 cm. (13 7/16 x 8 13/16 in.) sheet: 37.8 x 25.3 cm. (14 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.) mat: 48.8 x 36.2 cm. (19 3/16 x 14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Anne van Biema
Object Number
1996-214
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Inscription
Hiroshige hitsu 広重筆
Culture
Japanese
Period
Edo (Japanese period)
Type
woodblock prints, oban, prints
Materials
paper, color, ink, oban
Techniques
woodcut (process)
Subject
figures (representations), mountains, blue, gray (color), horses, trees, travelers, road and roadside elements, landscapes (representations), travel, views

–1996 Anne van Biema collection (New York, NY), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1996.

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