THE FUKAGAWA LUMBERYARDS, FROM ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO

Artist ANDO UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797 - 1858)

Date1856

CountryJapan

MediumWoodblock print

Dimensions34.3 × 22.7 cm (13 1/2 × 8 15/16") (Image)
51.3 × 41.1 cm (20 3/16 × 16 3/16") (Mat)

ClassificationsPrint

Credit LineBrigham Young University Museum of Art, purchase/gift of the Mahonri M. Young Estate.

Terms

Object number830652050

DescriptionThe image is a landscape dominated by a serpentine river extending from the foreground to the background. On either side of the river is land with trees and small buildings. Near the center of the work in the background, a bridge spans the river. In the sky two birds are portrayed, as well as small white dots, snow, cover the gray negative space of the work. The immediate foreground is land, and in the center is an oil-paper umbrella with Japanese characters. On the left side of the image in the foreground large beams rise to the top of the image, and some extend at a diagonal across the work. Two small animal figures are on the ground next to the beams. To the right of the foreground is vertical beams supporting a diagonal beams coming in from the right edge. There are Japanese characters in the upper right portion and at the lower left corner.

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