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'View of Arai', After Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川廣重, Ukiyo-e Woodblock, TokaidoCirca 1946
Circa 1946
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An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a ferry sailing across Lake Hamana. Signed in Kanji lower right, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858) and printed circa 1946 by Gihachiro Okuyama (1907-1981). An exceptionally crisp image with fresh color, printed on traditional Washi paper and showing delicate bokashi gradation of sumi ink in the foreground, horizon and upper sky. Sheet Dimensions: 10.25 H x 15.25 W inches.
Here we see a daimyo’s procession crossing the aforementioned Imagiri cut. The daimyo's boat, appearing in the middle of the print, is identifiable by its lavish decoration with clan crests and standards mounted on poles. The print focuses on the activities of the porters and retainers on the boat in the foreground, however; the men appear to enjoy this moment of respite from their duties. One appears to be yawning and stretching. Crossings such as this were favored over bridges for a multitude of reasons, one being that the latter sometimes collapsed in inclement weather. The shogunate also preferred such crossings, which presented physical barriers to enemy uprisings.
This example is from Okuyama's mid-century reissue of the artist's "Fifty Three Stations of the Tokaido Road", a series of Ukiyo-e prints created between 1833 and 1855. These depicted various views of the most important five main trade roads connecting Kyoto to modern-day Tokyo during the Edo period (1603-1868). A comic poem or "kyoka" also appears, inscribed in elegant kuzushiji script.
The best-known student of Utagawa Toyohiro (ca.1773-1829), Utagawa Hiroshige studied the Western style introduced by the founder of the Utagawa school, Toyoharu (1735-1814). Together with Hokusai, Hiroshige is considered one of the two leading Japanese landscape painters of the nineteenth century and he became one of the foremost representatives of the Ukiyo-e movement. He created more than 400 woodcut and woodblock prints of actors, warriors, courtesans and, particularly, naturalistic landscapes of Japan. Hiroshige's work was highly regarded in his own time and also became influential in the development of European Modernist painting of the late nineteenth century, especially that of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists including Monet, Van Gogh and Gauguin.
(For descriptions of the individual works, we are indebted to Nicholas Scaglione and Professor Ingrid Furniss of Lafayette College). [H32]
- Creation Year:Circa 1946
- Dimensions:Height: 9 in (22.86 cm)Width: 13.75 in (34.93 cm)
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- After:Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando Hiroshige) (1797-1858, Japanese)
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- Condition:fresh colors; unframed; shows well.
- Gallery Location:Santa Cruz, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: H321stDibs: LU34414090872
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