Tōkaidō gojusan-tsui 東海道五十三対 (Fifty-three Pairings along the Tokaido Road)

Description

Colour woodblock print, entitled Hara, from the series Tokaido gojusan-tsui (Fifty-three Pairings along the Tokaido Road), depicting a scene from Taketori monogatari, with the bamboo gatherer Sanugi no Miyako at a gate and Kaguya-hime looking out from a window, with top third cut off: Japan, by Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1845

Museum reference

V.2011.48

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Woodblock print

Production information

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797 - 1858, Artist
Japan, East Asia

Date

1842 - 1848

Materials

Paper

Physical description