1833-34 (Tenpo 4-5)／Color woodblock print on paper
22.6 x 34.4 cm
From Edo to Modern Times: The Ukiyo-e Collection of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
Exhibition period：Saturday March 29～Sunday May 25, 2025
Soka Art Museum (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
SUMMARY
The location of this image is what is now known as Kawasaki, in Kanagawa. It is where the Tamagawa river, the first to be crossed on the route of the Tokaido, and the one shown in this piece, lies. What is seen on the other side of the river is the Kawasaki-Juku post town. Tamagawa river was also known as the Rokugo river, and the boats that ferried people across it the "Rokugo Ferries". Originally there was a big bridge, but it was swept away several times by floods, so these ferries were used instead. At the back of the frame, stirring our sentiments, there is a beautiful contrast of the red sky of the sunset with a white, snow-powdered Mount Fuji.
ARTIST
Utagawa Hiroshige
1797-1858
At the age of 13, he inherited the family estate and lost his parents at the same time. At 15, he became a disciple of Utagawa Toyohiro, and took on the name Hiroshige. His teacher Toyohiro passed, and Hiroshige published Famous Places in the Eastern Capital in 1831, and the next year in 1832, published The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, which would be his masterpiece. This firmly established his status as a landscape artist. From that point on, he received commissions one after another, and worked on many pictures of famous places, rich in poetic sentiment, including The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaido, co-created with Keisai Eisen. In his final years, he released the culmination of his artistic skill, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, as his last crowning achievement.
List of artworks by the same artist
INFORMATION
Saturday, March 29 - Sunday, May 25, 2025
From Edo to Modern Times: The Ukiyo-e Collection of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Soka Art Museum (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
Saturday, June 4 - Sunday, July 31, 2016
The Art of Ukiyo-e: Selected Works from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan)
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