扇屋王子 (Ōgiya Restaurant at Ōji), Utagawa Hiroshige

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Utagawa Hiroshige, 扇屋王子 (Ōgiya Restaurant at Ōji)
Utagawa Hiroshige, 扇屋王子 (Ōgiya Restaurant at Ōji)
Utagawa Hiroshige
扇屋王子 (Ōgiya Restaurant at Ōji)
circa 1835–1842, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Hiroshige
1797–1858
扇屋王子 (Ōgiya Restaurant at Ōji), circa 1835–1842, Edo period (1600–1868)
Portfolio/Series title: 江戸高名会亭尽 Edo kōmei kaitei zukushi (Famous Restaurants in Edo)
Where object was made: Japan
Material/technique: color woodcut
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 254 x 374.7 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 10 x 14 3/4 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in
Credit line: Gift of H. Lee Turner
Accession number: 1968.0001.120
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Here, on a hot summer evening, waitresses from the restaurant hold up their kimono to wade across a stream while a young boy also plays in the water. Hiroshige was most famous for his prints of the Tōkaidō, but also produced many other print series of famous places. Each print in this series includes a fan-shaped cartouche with a satirical seventeen syllable kyōku poem that mentions the name of the restaurant depicted. Restaurants were important places in the Edo period (1615-1868) that allowed different social classes to mix and form private coteries, often for the production of satirical prose (kibyōshi) and poetry.