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No. 36 Yabuhara: The Ink-stone Spring at Torii Pass (Yabuhara, Torii tōge suzuri no shimizu)

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

Woodblock print, 'No. 36 Yabuhara: The Ink-stone Spring at Torii Pass ' from the series 'The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō Road' by , Edo (Tokyo), Japan.


Object details

Object type
Woodblock print
Titles
  • No. 36 Yabuhara: The Ink-stone Spring at Torii Pass (Yabuhara, Torii tōge suzuri no shimizu) (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. 36 Yabuhara: The Ink-stone Spring at Torii Pass ' from the series 'The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō Road' by , Edo (Tokyo), Japan.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 「木曽街道」 (Series Title)
    Translation
    [The Sixty-nine Stations of] the Kisokaidō Road
    Transliteration
    'Kisokaidō'
  • 「薮原鳥居峠硯ノ清水」 (Title)
    Translation
    Yabuhara: The Ink-stone Spring at Torii Pass
    Transliteration
    'Yabuhara, Torii tōge suzuri no shimizu'
  • 「三十六」 (In red cartouche)
    Translation
    36
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.3788-1886

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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