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Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Mount Atago, Shiba (Shiba Atagoyama)

Maker

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (Japanese, 1797-1858, b. in Edo)
Uoya Eikichi (Japanese, 19th century), publisher

Title

Mount Atago, Shiba (Shiba Atagoyama)
One hundred views of famous places in Edo
Meisho Edo hyakkei

Period

Edo (Japanese period)

Year

1857.8

Medium

  • polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Polychrome woodblock print

Materials

ink, color

Supports

  • paper

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

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."

Signature: Hiroshige ga

Seals: Publisher's seal | Uoei; censor's seal | aratame; date seal | 1857.8

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the Fazzano Brothers

Object Number

84.198.849

Type

  • Prints

Exhibition History

Prints for the Japanese New Year
Dec 17, 2010 – Apr 17, 2011

Label copy

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
Dec 15, 1995 – Mar 10, 1996

Image use

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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 (Japanese, 1797-1858, b. in Edo)
Uoya Eikichi (Japanese, 19th century), publisher
Mount Atago, Shiba (Shiba Atagoyama); One hundred views of famous places in Edo; Meisho Edo hyakkei, 1857.8
Polychrome woodblock print
Plate: 34 x 22.5 cm (13 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches)
Gift of the Fazzano Brothers 84.198.849

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