#36 Goyu tabibito tomeonna (Women Dragging Travellers to Inn at Goyu), Utagawa Hiroshige

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Utagawa Hiroshige, #36 Goyu tabibito tomeonna (Women Dragging Travellers to Inn at Goyu)
Utagawa Hiroshige, #36 Goyu tabibito tomeonna (Women Dragging Travellers to Inn at Goyu)
Utagawa Hiroshige
#36 Goyu tabibito tomeonna (Women Dragging Travellers to Inn at Goyu)
1833–1834, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Hiroshige
1797–1858
#36 Goyu tabibito tomeonna (Women Dragging Travellers to Inn at Goyu), 1833–1834, Edo period (1600–1868)
Portfolio/Series title: Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi no uchi (The 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road), popularly known as Hōeidō Tōkaidō (Great Tokaido)
Where object was made: Japan
Material/technique: color woodcut
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 226 x 350 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 8 7/8 x 13 3/4 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 244 x 367 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 9 5/8 x 14 7/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in
Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial
Accession number: 1928.7302
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Archive Label, Oct-Dec. 1989:
The Tōkaidō (Eastern Sea Route) was the main road connecting the capital of Edo (present-day Tokyo) with Kyoto. The route was heavily traveled by messengers, pilgrims, merchants, and feudal lords. Woodblock prints showing scenes of the 53 stations along the Tōkaidō became popular in the nineteenth-century. Hiroshige was the most celebrated artist of this subject.
In the left print, a humorous battle of the sexes is taking place outside an inn at the staton of Goyu. Two stout women are trying to drag in more customers. One man is almost choked by the woman's muscle. In the right print, two travelers stop by a restaurant at Mariko to eat a kind of yam paste for which the station town was famous. The humorous expressions tell their hearty enjoyment of the meal. Inside the restourant, woodblock prints are pasted on the wall, indicating their enormous popularity in nineteenth-century Japan.