Title
Koganei in Musashi Province (Musashi koganei), from the series Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji (Fuji sanjurokkei)
1858
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Date
- 1858
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodblock print
- Dimensions
- 38.0 x 25.4 cm
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Yasuko Myer Bequest 2018
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 138.2018.1
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Hiroshige Andō/Utagawa
Works in the collection
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About
Over the period of his career, Utagawa Hiroshige is believed to have created up to 5000 designs for woodblock prints. This image is from the series 'Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji' (Fuji sanjurokkei) and was released in 1858, the year of the artist’s death. In this spring scene, Mount Fuji is presented framed by the split trunk of a blossoming cherry tree by a fast-flowing river.
Such dramatic composition is a distinctive feature of Hiroshige’s prints which were widely distributed in Japan and also popular with European artists, in particular Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet. The series was created in collaboration with Hiroshige’s pupil Utagawa Hiroshige II (born Suzuki Chinpei, 1826–1869) and published in Edo (Tokyo) by Tsutaya Kichizō (Kōeidō)
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Elemental, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Jul 2022–2024
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Provenance
Israel Goldman Japanese Prints, pre 14 Jun 2018, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, June 2018.
