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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1906,1220,0.973
Title: Object: Narai-shuku meisanten no zu 奈良井宿名産店之図 (The Souvenir Shop at Narai Station); Series: Kisokaido 岐阻街道 (The Kisokaido)
Description: Colour woodblock print. Travellers resting at shop front in mountains. Inscribed, signed, marked and sealed. No 35 in series.
Producer name: Print artist: Keisai Eisen 渓斉英泉; Published by: Hoeidō 保永堂
Cultures/periods: Edo Period
Production date: 1835 (c.)
Production place: Published in: Edo (historic)
Materials: paper
Technique: woodblock; colour
Dimensions: Height: 24.60 centimetres; Width: 37.70 centimetres
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Curator's comments: Smith 1988 One of Eisen's twenty-four prints in the series of seventy-one on stations along the Kisokaido highway between Kyoto and Edo. From the same series as no. 159. Hoeido and Hiroshige had established a gentle landscape style with the Tokaido Road series, but Eisen's contributions have a sharply sensitive quality of their own. The signature 'Painted by Eisen' is missing in later reprints.
Bibliographic references: Binyon 1916 / A Catalogue of Japanese & Chinese Woodcuts Preserved in the Sub-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (222); Smith 1988 / Ukiyoe: Images of Unknown Japan (160); Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan Vol 2 / Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan (247)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: traveller/travel; landscape
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Kisokaido (historic), Narai (stop no. 35)
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Arthur Morrison
Acquisition date: 1906
Department: Asia
Registration number: 1906,1220,0.973

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