#75 神田紺屋町 Kanda Konya-chō (Dyer's District in Kanda), Utagawa Hiroshige

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Utagawa Hiroshige, #75 神田紺屋町 Kanda Konya-chō (Dyer's District in Kanda)
Utagawa Hiroshige, #75 神田紺屋町 Kanda Konya-chō (Dyer's District in Kanda)
Utagawa Hiroshige
#75 神田紺屋町 Kanda Konya-chō (Dyer's District in Kanda)
1857, 11th month, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Hiroshige
1797–1858
#75 神田紺屋町 Kanda Konya-chō (Dyer's District in Kanda), 1857, 11th month, Edo period (1600–1868)
Portfolio/Series title: 名所江戸百景 Meisho Edo Hyakkei (One-hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo)
Where object was made: Japan
Material/technique: color woodcut
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 336 x 223 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 13 1/4 x 8 3/4 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 374 x 252 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 3/4 x 9 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: Gift of H. Lee Turner
Accession number: 1968.0001.087
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Exhibition Label: “Flowers, Dragons and Pine Trees: Asian Textiles in the Spencer Museum of Art,” Nov-2005, Mary Dusenbury This print illustrates a typical scene of fabric hanging out to dry in the indigo dyers’ district in Edo (present-day Tokyo). Exhibition Label: "Asian Gallery," Jul-2003, Youmi Efurd These two prints (1999.0151) belong to a series of 119 different designs for an ambitious set of 100 prints depicting the city of Edo and its environs. In the series, the artist captured certain scenes of festival and everyday life in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) between 1856 and his death in 1858. For instance, as seen in the Dyer’s District in Kanda, fabrics are hanging outside to be dried. Hiroshige also introduced innovative framing effects that inspired later European artists such as Vincent Van Gogh. Exhibition Label: Installation related to "Tokyo: The Imperial Capital Woodblock prints by Koizumi Kishio, 1928-1940," Feb-2005, Hillary Pedersen This print belongs to a series of one hundred ninteen different designs for an ambitious set of one hundred prints depicting the city of Edo and its surrounding areas. In this series, Hiroshige captured certain scenes of everyday life in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) between 1856 and his death in 1858. This print depicts part of the merchant’s disctrict in Edo where fabric would be dyed, rinsed in the nearby Kanda river, and then hung outdoors to dry. The white fabric hung on the front racks carry the character ’’Uoei,“ the publisher of the print, while the fabric further back show the famous lozenge-shaped signature marks of Hiroshige. Kanda remained a merchant district well into the twentieth century.