Kuwana: View of the Tomita Post Station, c. 1840-1842
Utagawa Hiroshige; Publisher: Sanoya Kiheiexpand_more
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paperexpand_more
Bequest of Louis W. Hill, Jr.expand_more 96.146.71
Not on Viewexpand_more
On the left is a restaurant that, according to the two white signs, offers grilled clams (yaki hamaguri) as its specialty. The sign above the seated porter dressed in a loincloth is a “product placement” for the face powder Senjōko, sold at Kyobashi in Edo, a business that probably underwrote parts of the publication costs of this print.
Details
- Title
- Kuwana: View of the Tomita Post Station
- Artist Life
- 1797 - 1858
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 96.146.71
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Ukiyo-e shūka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chūban #24.43
- Curator Approved
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