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  • Narrow composition framed by wooden poles, depicting a soaring white bird above a river scene with boats and a wooden bridge before the sun setting over a dark horizon.
  • Narrow composition framed by wooden poles, depicting a soaring white bird above a river scene with boats and a wooden bridge before the sun setting over a dark horizon.

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Eitai Bridge (永代ばしEitaibashi)

Maker

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (1797–1858, b. in Edo, Japan)
Murataya Ichigorō 村田屋市五郎 (ca. 1844 - 1853, Edo, Japan), publisher

Title

Eitai Bridge (永代ばしEitaibashi)
from the series New Famous Views in the Eastern Capital (新板 東都名所 Shinpan Tōto meisho )

Period

Edo Period

Year

1835-1839

Medium

  • Polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e)

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e)

Materials

ink and color

Supports

  • paper

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)

Dimensions

Chūtanzakuban: 36.5 x 12.4 cm (14 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Small red cartouches read Hamachô (a district in Edo) and Ôhashi (background)

Inscription verso, bottom left in pencil: Yi313/[Japanese Characters]

Signature: Signature: 廣重画 Hiroshige ga (Pictured by Hiroshige)

Seals: Publisher's seal: 村田 Murata (Murataya Jirōbei)

Identification

State

Forrer comments on the two versions of the print, one, as here, with areas of white rather than solid blue around the bridge

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.246

Type

  • Prints

Exhibition History

Hiroshige
Selections from the Collection
Mar 07, 2003 – Jun 01, 2003
Meisho
Depictions of Famous Places in Japan
Jun 09, 1999 – Sep 05, 1999

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (1797–1858, b. in Edo, Japan)
Murataya Ichigorō 村田屋市五郎 (ca. 1844 - 1853, Edo, Japan), publisher
Eitai Bridge (永代ばしEitaibashi); from the series New Famous Views in the Eastern Capital (新板 東都名所 Shinpan Tōto meisho ), 1835-1839
Polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e)
Chūtanzakuban: 36.5 x 12.4 cm (14 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches)
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 34.246

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