Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)
Japanese, 1826–1869
Kintai Bridge at Iwakuni, Suo (Boshu) Province from the series “One Hundred Famous Views of the Various Provinces”
INV-1967
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)
Japanese, 1826–18691859
Kintai Bridge at Iwakuni, Suo (Boshu) Province from the series “One Hundred Famous Views of the Various Provinces”
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) Japanese, 1826–1869 →Japanese (culture or style)woodblock printprint
Date
1859
Medium
Color woodblock print
Dimensions
Paper: 34.8 × 22.9 cm (13 3/4 × 9 1/16 in.); Block: 33.3 × 22.1 cm (13 1/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc.
This print is the most celebrated design from Hiroshige II’s own large landscape series of 1859, One Hundred Famous Views of the Various Provinces. Hiroshige II likely created the series in response to the overwhelming popularity of Utagawa Hiroshige’s series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The composition echoes Hiroshige’s style, but the limited color palette, which brings out the intense blue gradation of the water, distinguishes it.
Also notable
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Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858
Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858
