Collection
Andô/Utagawa HIROSHIGE
(Japan 1797–1858)
- Title
- Daybreak at licensed quarters, from the series One hundred famous views of Edo
- Other titles:
- Yoshiwara, early morning
- Alternative title:
- Meisho Edo hyakkei: kakuchû shinonome
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Ansei era 1854 - 1860 → Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Year
- 1857
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
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Ôban tate-e: 34.1 x 22.5cm image; 35.5 x 24.5cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l., in Japanese, ink, incised on block "Hiroshige ga" [picture by Hiroshige]. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1961
- Accession number
- DO15.1961
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (3)
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AJIOKA Chiaki (Curator), Heroes and villains: from Japan's floating world May 2001, Sydney, May 2001, 7. cat.no. 3.5
Gary Hickey, Beauty & desire in Edo period Japan 1998, 'Pleasure Town', pg. 25-36, Parkes, 1998, 24 (colour illus.), 25, 70. fig.no. 17. In this publication this work is titled 'Kakuchû shinonome [Dawn in the licenced quarters]'.
Jackie Menzies, The Floating World: Japan's world of transient pleasures 1994, Sydney, 1994. cat.no. C12
- Exhibition history (5)
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Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962
Japanese Woodcuts, Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle, 28 Jun 1968–28 Jul 1968
The Floating World: Japan's World of transient pleasures, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 May 1994–17 Jul 1994
Beauty and Desire in Edo period Japan, National Gallery of Australia, Australia, 06 Jun 1998–09 Aug 1998
Heroes and Villains, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 May 2001–19 Aug 2001
