Kanaya

Details

• Title

  Kanaya

• Series

  Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road

• Artist/maker

  Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)

• Associated people

  Sanoya Kihei (active c. 1801 - 1878) (publisher)

• Associated place

  Asia › Japan (place of creation)

• Date

  1840 - 1842

• 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

• Dimensions

  mount 27.6 x 40.1 cm (height x width)
  sheet 22 x 28.3 cm (height x width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by David and Barbara Mitchell, 1997.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1997.218

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