Shichū han'ei Tanabata matsuri (The City Flourishing, Tanabata Festival)

Description

Colour woodblock print, entitled Shichū han'ei Tanabata matsuri (The City Flourishing, Tanabata Festival), from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo), depicting festival streamers and decorations above houses with a view of Mt. Fuji in the distance: Japan, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Museum reference

A.1887.745.39.75

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Woodblock print

Production information

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

Date

1857

Materials

Paper

Associations

Depicted: Edo, Musashi province, Japan, East Asia