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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1906,1220,0.965
Title: Object: Oiwake shuku Asama-yama chobo 追分宿浅間山眺望 (Fine View of Mt. Asama at Oiwake Station); Series: Kisokaido 木曽街道 (The Kiso Highway)
Description: Colour wodblock print. Mt. Asama rising above packhorse driver and porters walking in heavy rain. No. 21 in series. 1 of 2 versions of design (the other without rain), represented by 3 impressions.
Producer name: Print artist: Keisai Eisen 渓斉英泉
Production date: 1835-1842 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Japan
Materials: paper
Technique: woodblock
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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 (211)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: landscape
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Asama-yama; Topographic representation of: Oiwake; Topographic representation of: Kisokaido (historic)
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Arthur Morrison
Acquisition date: 1906
Department: Asia
Registration number: 1906,1220,0.965

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