#hiroshige

[howsublime]

Detail of New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji (ca. 1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige

[nobrashfestivity]

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 Mimasaka Province, Yamabushi Valley (Mimasaka, Yamabushidani), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujūyoshū meisho zue) Transliterated Title: [Dai Nihon] Rokujūyoshū meisho zue: Mimasaka, Yamabushidani Edo period, 1853 (Kaei 6, 12th month)

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: The Sea at Satta, Suruga Province, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige, né Andō Tokutarō (Japanese, 1797-1858) Date: 1st half of 19th century Genre: seascape Movement: Utagawa School Style: ukiyo-e Period: Edo Medium: color woodcut Dimensions: 37 cm (14.6 in) high x 24.5 cm (9.6 in) wide Location: Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: Illustration "Andō Hiroshige. The Rat Catcher, around 1850" from The Japanese Print : Its Evolution and Essence by Muneshige Narazaki. English adaptation by C. H. Mitchell. Tokyo, Japan, Palo Alto, CA: Kodansha International Ltd., 1966.

"This is a comic print. It presents a fairly simple comic situation and does not call for much by way of comment. An irate householder, clad in night dress (his bed is shown in the background at the left), is shown assailing a slumbering, well-fed cat who has allowed white rats to disturb the man's sleep. ...The print is signed, Hiroshige gihitsu ("Hiroshige, painted for fun").

[oncanvas]

The Fuji River in Snow, Utagawa Hiroshige, circa 1842-44

Woodblock print 73.5 x 25 cm. (29 x 10 ⅞ in.)

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday: Commemorative Stamps and Ukiyo-E Prints

Today we highlight a set of Ukiyo-E prints of classic Japanese artworks. These prints were released by the Ministry of Postal Service in 1964 in celebration of that year’s Olympic Games, held in Tokyo. Each print was featured as a commemorative postage stamp between the years 1949 and 1963. The prints were hand-made using traditional woodblock techniques, though reduced in scale from the originals. Kyoto Hanga-In published the prints out of Tokyo.

The prints feature the Kitagawa Utamaro (1751-1805) piece Beautiful Woman Playing a Glass Flute; Mt. Fuji Viewed Through Ocean Waves, by Katsushika Hokusai (1759-1849); and four works by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858): Moon and Geese, Nihonbashi Bridge, Yui, and Kyoto.

See more Decorative Sunday posts!

--Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[crispybiscuitfinger]

Some favourite details from the Hiroshige exhibition currently at the British Museum

[timotey]

Foxfires at the Changing Tree, art by Utagawa Hiroshige (1857)