1857 (Ansei 4)／Color woodblock print on paper
36.2 x 24.4 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 backside of the cat looking outside through window with a grid frame appears adorable although the style of the window shows that the room is probably on the second floor of the Yoshiwara red light district. The owner of the cat is probably taken care of her customer. A bamboo rake, a souvenir from the Asakusa’s Otori Shrine, which the customer may have brought, stays on the tatami floor. Outside the window, people walking down the street with rakes in their hands. Mt. Fuji and a gaggle of geese appear far away. The sky is colored red and the red light district becomes busier. The cat seems to be paying attention to the people who came by to enjoy buying the rakes as a fortune object.
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)
Friday, September 17 - Sunday, October 17, 2021
Masterpieces of Japanese-style Painting from the Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tendo City Museum of Art (Yamagata, Japan)
Monday, June 1 - Sunday, July 5, 2020
Great Masters of Japanese Painting from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Shimane Art Museum (Shimane, Japan)
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)
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