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No. 31, Shiojiri Pass: View of Lake Suwa (Shiojiri tōge, Suwa no kosui chōbō)

Woodblock Print
Artist/Maker
Keisai Eisen (artist)
Place of origin
Tokyo (made)
Japan (made)

Woodblock print, 'No. 31, Shiojiri Pass: View of Lake Suwa' from the series 'The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō Road' by Keisai Eisen (1790-1848), Edo (Tokyo), Japan.


Object details

Object type
Woodblock print
Titles
  • No. 31, Shiojiri Pass: View of Lake Suwa (Shiojiri tōge, Suwa no kosui chōbō) (assigned by artist)
  • The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō Road (Kisokaidō rokujūkyū tsugi no uchi) (series title)
Materials and techniques
Woodblock print on paper
Paper
Woodblock Print
Brief description
Woodblock print, 'No. 31, Shiojiri Pass: View of Lake Suwa' from the series 'The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō Road' by Keisai Eisen (1790-1848), Edo (Tokyo), Japan.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 「木曽街道」 (Series Title)
    Translation
    [The Sixty-nine Stations of] the Kisokaidō Road
    Transliteration
    'Kisokaidō'
  • 「塩尻 [two characters illegible] 諏訪ノ湖水眺望」 (Title)
    Translation
    Shiojiri Pass: View of Lake Suwa
    Transliteration
    'Shiojiri tōge, Suwa no kosui chōbō'
  • 「三十一」 (In cartouche)
    Translation
    31
Object history
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.
Associated objects
Collection
East Asia Collection
Accession number
E.3790-1886

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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