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Goyu: Women Stopping Travellers (Goyu, tabibito tomeru onna)

Woodblock Print
Artist/Maker
Utagawa Hiroshige (artist)
Place of origin
Japan (made)
Tokyo (made)

Woodblock print, 'Goyu' from the series 'Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road' by Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797-1858), Edo (Toyko), Japan.


Object details

Object type
Woodblock print
Titles
  • Goyu: Women Stopping Travellers (Goyu, tabibito tomeru onna) (generic title)
  • Goyu (Goyu) (assigned by artist)
  • Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi) (series title)
Materials and techniques
Woodblock print on paper
Paper
Woodblock Print
Brief description
Woodblock print, 'Goyu' from the series 'Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road' by Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797-1858), Edo (Toyko), Japan.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 「東海道五拾三次之内」 (Series Title)
    Translation
    Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road
    Transliteration
    'Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi'
  • 「御油」 (Title)
    Translation
    Goyu
    Transliteration
    'Goyu'
  • 「広重画」 (Artist signature)
    Transliteration
    'Hiroshige ga'
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 object
E.3750-1886 (Duplicate)
Collection
East Asia Collection
Accession number
E.3751-1886

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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