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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1902,0212,0.397.45
Title: Object: Shinano Sarashina tagoto tsuki Kyodaisan 信濃更科田毎月鏡台山 (The All-fields Moon and Mirror-stand Mountain in Sarashina, Shinano province); Series: Rokujū yo shū meisho zue 六十余州名所図会 (Illustrated Guide to Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces)
Description: Colour-woodblock print. Full moon reflected in every rice field, with Mirror-stand Mountain, at Sarashina in Shinano province.
Producer name: Print artist: Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重; Published by: Koshimuraya Heisuke 越村屋平助
Cultures/periods: Kaei Era
Production date: 1853 (eighth lunar month)
Production place: Made in: Japan
Materials: paper
Technique: woodblock; colour
Dimensions: Height: 32.80 centimetres; Width: 22.20 centimetres
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Bibliographic references: Binyon 1916 / A Catalogue of Japanese & Chinese Woodcuts Preserved in the Sub-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (334)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2007 Nov 28-2008 Jan 20, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, 'Utagawa Hiroshige: The Moon Reflected' 2008 Mar 8-Apr 26, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK, 'Utagawa Hiroshige: The Moon Reflected' 2008 Oct-2009 Feb, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to present'
Subjects: landscape; moon
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Kyodai-zan
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Mrs Ernest Hart
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Ernest Abraham Hart
Acquisition date: 1902
Department: Asia
Registration number: 1902,0212,0.397.45

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