No. 7, Strong Wind on Shin-Ōhashi Bridge
Woodblock Print
1859 (printed)
1859 (printed)
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Hirokage was a pupil of the renowned 19th-century painter and printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige and, like him, worked in the genre of ukiyoe - ‘pictures of the floating world’. In this print the human and comical content is more important than the view itself. The gusting wind sweeping through the city throws travellers on a bridge into complete disarray.
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| Materials and techniques | Woodblock print on paper |
| Brief description | Woodblock print, 'No. 7, Strong Wind on Shin-Ōhashi Bridge' from the series 'Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo' by Utagawa Hirokage (active 1855-1865), Edo (Tokyo), Japan, 1859 |
| Physical description | Woodblock print of a famous place in Edo. A series of igures are blown from a bridge due to high winds. |
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| Object history | This work is one of thirteen, numbered E.2968 to 80-1886, taken from a series of fifty prints. The series depicts famous places in Edo with comic accidents. Engraver; Horikane. Publisher; Isujiokaya. Purchased from S. M. Franck & Co., accessioned in 1886. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project. |
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| Summary | Hirokage was a pupil of the renowned 19th-century painter and printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige and, like him, worked in the genre of ukiyoe - ‘pictures of the floating world’. In this print the human and comical content is more important than the view itself. The gusting wind sweeping through the city throws travellers on a bridge into complete disarray. |
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| Accession number | E.2969-1886 |
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| Record created | December 15, 1999 |
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