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No. 27, Kakegawa: Fording the Forty-eight Rapids on the Akiba Road (Kakegawa, Akiba michi shijūhachi segoe)

Woodblock Print
1855 (made)
Artist/Maker
Utagawa Hiroshige (artist)
Place of origin
Japan (made)
Tokyo (made)

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.


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Woodblock print
Titles
  • No. 27, Kakegawa: Fording the Forty-eight Rapids on the Akiba Road (Kakegawa, Akiba michi shijūhachi segoe) (assigned by artist)
  • Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue), also known as the Vertical Tōkaidō (series title)
Materials and techniques
Woodblock print on paper
Paper
Woodblock Print
Woodblock Print
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 34.3cm
  • Width: 22.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 「五十三次名所図会」 (Series title)
    Translation
    Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations
    Transliteration
    'Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue'
  • 「廿七　岡川　秋葉道四十八瀬ごへ」 (Title)
    Translation
    Kakegawa: Fording the Forty-eight Rapids on the Akiba Road
    Transliteration
    'Kakegawa, Akiba michi shijūhachi segoe'
  • 「広重筆」 (Artist Signature)
    Transliteration
    'Hiroshige hitsu'
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.
Associated objects
Collection
East Asia Collection
Accession number
E.4012A-1886

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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