Photographic Eight Views of Tokyo

Object Details

• Artist

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

• Label

  Four prints marked for cutting provide postcard-like images of scenes in Tokyo. The complete set of eight scenes is printed on two standard-size (oban) sheets of paper. At the upper right is the Mitsui Bank at Surugacho. To its left is Nihonbashi. Below at left is Shinbashi station, terminus of the Tokyo-Yokohama line linking Tokyo to its port. To its right is the wide river at Ryogoku Bridge, a major site of entertainment during the Edo period (1615-1868). The print, by Hiroshige III, represents a modern version of the theme of "Eight Views..." which began from Chinese poetry and paintings of the scenic region around the Xiao and Xiang Rivers.

• 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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• Date

  1870s

• Name

  Woodbury, Elizabeth D.

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Japanese Art, Cities and towns, Elizabeth D. Woodbury collection, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints