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- Museum number
- 1915,0823,0.695
- Title
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Object: Nihonbashidori itchome ryakuzu 日本橋通一丁目略図 (Condensed picture of the Itchome neighbourhood along Nihonbashidori)
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Series: Meisho Edo hyakkei 名所江戸百景 (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo)
- Description
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Colour-woodblock print. Travellers sharing an umbrella on Nihonbashidori. No. 44 in series. 1 of 3 impressions.
- Production date
- 1858 (Eighth month)
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- Curator's comments
- This is a view looking down Toricho, one of Edo's main shopping streets, on a summer evening, probably facing south toward Nihonbashi bridge. The long storefront on the right is that of Shirokiya, one of the city's three largest department stores, along with Echigoya (now Mitsukoshi) and Daimaruya (now Daimaru). Around forty years earlier, the print artist Sawa Sekkyo had designed a horizontal 'perspective picture' (uki-e) depicting Shirokiya from a similar vantage point but during the New Year's shopping season (museum registration no. 1908,0616,0.172).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 23 Aug 1915 (transfer date)
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from Department of Oriental Manuscripts (August 1915)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1915,0823,0.695
