One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: #107 Fukagawa, Susaki and the Jumantsubo Plain / Andô Hiroshige
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- Accession Number
- 1960/2.143
- Title
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: #107 Fukagawa, Susaki and the Jumantsubo Plain
- Artist
- Andô Hiroshige
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1797-1858
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1856-1857
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Style/Group/Movement
- ukiyo e
- Inscription
- Signed: Hiroshige ga
- Date seal: Snake intercalary 5 (= intercalary 5th month, 1857) Censor's seal: Aratame
- Publisher: Uo-ya Eikichi
- Dimensions
- 35.2 cm x 23.7 cm (13 7/8 in. x 9 5/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- color print
- Secondary Object Classification
- ukiyo-e
- Secondary Object Type
- kacho-e
- Physical Description
- This vertical print frames a view of a landscape with an up close view of a bird in the upper right corner that takes up about thirty percent of the image.
- The viewer is positioned alongside the bird, circling the sky above the twin peaks of a mountain. A crate floats in the water below while smaller birds flocking around it. Snow covers the ground.
- The signature and title markings are in the upper right corner, and in the middle along the left side above the landscape.
- Subject Matter
- In this series Hiroshige combines his mastery of kacho-e and landscapes, while incorporating innovative compositions and color choices. His use of vertical format literally turned ukiyo-e on its side, transforming the traditional horizontal structure of woodblock prints. He also makes use of striking figure-ground framing techniques, of which this print, Fukugawa, Ten-million Tsubo Plain at Suzaki, may be the most famous example.
- The viewer is positioned alongside a black kite, or tonbi, circling the sky above the twin peaks of Mount Tsukuba. In Japanese culture the tonbi is understood as an inexorable hunter and scavenger, and her favorite food is fabled to be abura age, or thin pieces of fried tofu. This tonbi may be after a floating crate of abura age below or the smaller birds flocking around it.
- Secondary Keywords
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- upward
- animals and creatures
- asian
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- containers
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- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- east asian
- inorganic material
- japanese
- japanese printmaking styles
- japanese styles
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by composition
- natural landscapes
- noncompetitive play equipment
- objects we use
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- precipitation
- recreational artifacts
- recreational artifacts for noncompetitive activities
- scientific concepts
- settlements and landscapes
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- views
- views by vantage point or orientation
- visual works
- visual works by form
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- Rights
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 833 x 1251
- File Size
- 151 KB
- Record
- 1960/2.143
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"One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: #107 Fukagawa, Susaki and the Jumantsubo Plain; Andô Hiroshige." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1960-sl-2.143/1960_2.143.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.