Akashi, 1853, 4th month
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paperexpand_more
The Margaret McMillan Webber Estateexpand_more 51.40.41
Not on Viewexpand_more
Two women on a balcony espy Mitsuuji walking through the reeds at Akashi Bay. Hiroshige later reused his landscape design for a triptych showing Kanazawa Bay in his Eight Views of Kanazawa Bay in Moonlight (Buyō Kanazawa hasshō yakei) from 1857.
Details
- Title
- Akashi
- Artist Life
- 1797 - 1858
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 51.40.41
- Catalogue Raisonne
- S0139-007.1-3; Marks, Genji's World in Japanese Woodblock Prints (2012), no. G550-07
- Curator Approved
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