Famous Places in Enlightened Tokyo: Nihonbashi

Object Details

• Artist

  Utagawa Hiroshige III 歌川広重三世 (1843-1894)

• Label

  The title of this print identifies it as an image of the cultural enlightnment of Tokyo in the early Meiji era. Here at Nihonbashi, storehouses with their shutters raised for airing appear beyond Nihonbashi, a major bridge spanning the Sumida River. A festival palanquin bearing the spirit of a Shinto deity is carried precariously across the bridge.

• Provenance

  From the 1960s to 1999

  Elizabeth D. Woodbury, Japan and Alexandria, VA, purchased in Japan in the 1960s [1]

  From 1999

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, given by Elizabeth D. Woodbury in 1999

  Notes:

  [1] According to Provenance Remark 1 in the object record.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Elizabeth D. Woodbury

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift--the Elizabeth D. Woodbury collection of prints from Meiji Japan

• Type

  Print

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1860s, 1870s

• Name

  Woodbury, Elizabeth D.

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Bridges, Art, Mount Fuji, Japanese Art, Elizabeth D. Woodbury collection, Meiji era (1868 - 1912), Palanquin

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints