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
Set in what is now Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, two women, perhaps mother and daughter, are seen with a male companion. In the background towers the magnificent Mt. Fuji, covered in snow, with the morning light at its back. The women stand, indifferent to its majesty. In the piece’s novel composition, in which the peak of Mt. Fuji is drawn to jut out of frame, you can feel something like rivalry towards the already-popular Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series by Katsushika Hokusai. The two cranes frolicking in the field also serve as a softening accent to Mt. Fuji’s severe appearance.
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)
Sunday, August 25 - Sunday, September 29, 2019
This Is Japan In Kyoto From The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection The Museum of Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan)
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)
Thursday, August 24 - Sunday, November 19, 2006
Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection The Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Curitiba, Brazil)
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