Onagi-gawa gohon matsu (Five Pines, Onagi Canal)

Description

Colour woodblock print, entitled Onagi-gawa gohon matsu (Five Pines, Onagi Canal), from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo), depicting the old pine-tree overhanging Onagi-gawa on which a boat is being poled: Japan, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1856

Museum reference

A.1887.745.39.6

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Woodblock print

Production information

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797 - 1858, Artist
Japan, East Asia
Uoya Eikichi, Publisher

Date

1856

Materials

Paper

Associations

Depicted: Edo, Musashi province, Japan, East Asia

Exhibitions

• Looking East: The Lady Ivy Wu Gallery (29 Jul 2011 - 08 Jun 2014)
  National Museum of Scotland