Crowds crossing Nihonbashi

Details

• Title

  Crowds crossing Nihonbashi

• Series

  Famous places in the Eastern capital

• Artist/maker

  Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)

• Associated people

  Tsutaya Kichizō (active c. 1820 - 1890) (publisher)

• Associated place

  Asia › Japan (place of creation)

• Date

  1832 - 1834

• Material and technique

  nishiki-e (full colour) woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)

• Material index

  processed material › paper

• Technique index

  printed › relief print › woodcut › colour woodcut

• Object type

  visual representation › print › triptych print

• Dimensions

  mount 55.8 x 25.2 cm (height x width)
  sheet 36.9 x 25.2 cm (height x width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Mrs E. M. Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding from the Herbert H. Jennings Collection, 1952.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EAX.4861.b

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