Details
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Artist/maker
Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826 - 1869) (designer)Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer) -
Associated people
Tsutaya Kichizō (active c. 1820 - 1890) (publisher) -
Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EAX.4724
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Catalogue text
The celebrated husband-and-wife rocks are bound together with great ropes, renewed each January, while a torii sits on the highest point. In the Edo period, the water was famously clean, and pilgrims would bathe here before visiting the Ise shrines.
In: Impey, Oliver, Hiroshige's Views of Mount Fuji: A Selection of Woodblock Print Views of Mount Fuji, Including Examples from the Series 'The Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji', of 1858-9, by Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001)
Further reading
Impey, Oliver, Hiroshige's Views of Mount Fuji: A Selection of Woodblock Print Views of Mount Fuji, Including Examples from the Series 'The Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji', of 1858-9, by Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001), no. 6 on p. 11, illus. p. 19 pl. 6
Pollard, Clare, Mitsuko Ito Watanabe, Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2014), no. 50, illus. p.151
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