Arai, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858. c. 1837/42. Color woodblock print; chuban. Explore the catalogue record, image rights and documented connections from The Art Institute of Chicago.
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Utagawa Hiroshige across 2 collections
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- Night Rain at Karasaki, from the series Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei no uchi)The Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1835 · JP52 · Compare side by side →
- KuwanaThe Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1838 · JP98 · Compare side by side →
- Hamamatsu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)The Art Institute of Chicago · c. 1837/42 · 1930.60 · Compare side by side →
- Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)The Art Institute of Chicago · c. 1837/42 · 1930.59 · Compare side by side →
Related Afterlives investigations involving Utagawa Hiroshige
- A tree crosses the page.Van Gogh’s 1887 Flowering Plum Orchard adapts Hiroshige’s plum-garden design; the British Museum identifies his fourth-state impression and a tracing.
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Color woodblock print; chuban
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