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Utagawa Hiroshige

Mount Atago, Shiba (Shiba Atagoyama), 1857.8

Description

Maker

  • Uoya Eikichi, 19th century, Japanese, publisher

Title

Mount Atago, Shiba (Shiba Atagoyama)

Year

1857.8

Medium

Polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink,
  • color

Techniques

  • wood block,
  • woodcut

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Plate: 34 x 22.5 cm (13 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, bottom right in pencil: 25-

[text and poems]
In signature cartouche above artist's name is an inscription shogatsu mikka Bishamon zukai explaining that the subject of the print is the messenger of Bishamon-ten performing the Heaping Rice Ceremony at Atago Shrine on the third day of the first month (see cat. file for Xerox of full description of the print from Smith and Poster, 100 Famous Views…); inscription upper left "an auspicious day…month (number of month cut off), 1857." While the figure is usually named the proprietor of the Atagoya teahouse on the top of the hill, Uspensky remarks that some scholars consider the inscription to refer to Hiroshige himself as the "messenger."

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of the Fazzano Brothers

Object Number

84.198.849

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Prints for the Japanese New Year

December 17, 2010 - April 17, 2011

This figure wears the ritual costume of “the messenger of Bishamon,” who performed the Heaping Rice Ceremony at the Atago Shrine in Edo (modern Tokyo) on the third day of the New Year.

Prints for the Japanese New Year

December 15, 1995 - March 10, 1996

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Mount Atago, Shiba (Shiba Atagoyama) with the accession number of 84.198.849. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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