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.4382
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Catalogue text
Hiroshige enjoyed breaking the foreground by use of a dividing line, such as provided by a tree, to frame the mountain in the background. Usually, as here, this foreground is meant to attract the attention of the viewer, but not to be the subject of the print.
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. 1 on p. 11, illus. p. 14 pl. 1
Pollard, Clare, Mitsuko Ito Watanabe, Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2014), no. 44, illus. p. 139
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