Kanchiron (metal wine heater)

Utagawa Hiroshige

1797–1858

Kanchiron (metal wine heater), 1840, Edo period (1600–1868)

Portfolio/Series title: Sokkyō Kagebōshi tsukushi (Improvised Shadow Pictures)

Where object was made: Japan

Material/technique: color woodcut

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 177.8 x 245.7 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 7 x 9 11/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in

Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Arthur S. Johnson (The May Finney Marcy Collection)

Accession number: 1964.0072

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Archive Label Sept-May 1993:
This print is one of a comic series in which Hiroshige juxtaposed human figures with their silhouetes projected on a shoji panel or paper door in the adjacent section. Such visual humor was a common feature of Japanese arts of the Edo period (1600-1868) in general, and of woodblock prints in particular.
Hiroshige's interest in the shape, contour, and silhouette of objects was not only of interest to Japanese artists; such concerns are also evident in the slightly later work of French artists who emulated Japanese art.