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 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
Print
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.
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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.
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