Akashi ()

Description

Part of a colour woodblock triptych print entitled Furyu Genji (Fashionable Genji): Akashi, depicting a scene from A Fake Murasaki and a Rustic Genji (Nise Murasaki inaka Genji), of Asagiri and her maid Chidori looking out from Okabe station over Akashi beach, where Ashikaga Mitsuuji and a page walk on the beach, with full moon above: by Utagawa Kunisada and Utagawa Hiroshige, Japan, 1853

Museum reference

A.1887.745.60.3

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Woodblock print

Production information

Utagawa Kunisada, 1786 - 1864, Artist
Japan, East Asia
Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797 - 1858, Artist
Iseya Kanekichi, 1840s - 1875 (fl.), Publisher

Date

1853

Materials

Paper

Associations

Depicted: Ashikaga Mitsuuji
Depicted: Akashi-shi, Hyogo-ken, Japan, East Asia