No. 27, Kakegawa: Fording the Forty-eight Rapids on the Akiba Road (Kakegawa, Akiba michi shijūhachi segoe)
Woodblock Print
1855 (made)
1855 (made)
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Woodblock print depicting a landscape. A series of figures wade through a zig-zag river. In the distance, a cluster of orange and yellow rooftops partially obscured by the green spit of land in the centre of the print.
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Materials and techniques | Woodblock print on paper |
Brief description | Woodblock print, 'No. 27, Kakegawa: Fording the Forty-eight Rapids on the Akiba Road' from the series 'Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations' also known as the 'Vertical Tōkaidō', by Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797-1858), Edo (Tokyo), Japan, 1855. |
Physical description | Woodblock print depicting a landscape. A series of figures wade through a zig-zag river. In the distance, a cluster of orange and yellow rooftops partially obscured by the green spit of land in the centre of the print. |
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Object history | One from a series of 55 prints. Publisher; Tsutaya. 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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Accession number | E.4012C-1886 |
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Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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