東海道五十三次之内 神奈川 宿台之景|View of the Kanagawa station at sunset
ca. 1833–34
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
9 15/32 x 14 in. (24.1 x 35.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number
JP474
Tags
Art Historical Context
Utagawa Hiroshige'sView of the Kanag Station at Sunset* (ca. 1833–34) is a captivating woodblock print from his series *The Fifty-three of the Tōkaidō*. This scene vividly depicts the bustling post station along Japan's historic coastal highway connecting Edo (modern Tokyo) to Kyoto. Teeming with inns, tea, boats on the water, and lively street activity bathed in the warm glow of sunset, it captures the everyday vibrancy of travel during the Edo period (1615–1868As a master of ukiyo-e—"pictures of the floating world"—Hiroshige elevated landscape prints with his poetic eye for nature and human ...
About the Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1826–1869
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), born Andō Tokutarō, was the last great master of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printmaking and one of the most influential landscape artists in history. Born in Edo (modern Tokyo) into a low-ranking samurai family serving as fire wardens, Hiroshige transformed landscape printmaking into a poetic meditation on nature, weather, and everyday life. His revolutionary approac...