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Object Type
print
Museum number
1915,0823,0.767
Title
Object:
Shono Shiratorizuka koseki 庄野 白鳥塚古跡
(Shono - Historic site of the Shiratori Tomb-mound)
Series:
Gojūsan-tsugi meisho zue 五十三次名所図会
(Illustrated Guide to Famous Places along the Fifty-three Stations)
Description
Colour woodblock print, oban tate-e. Six porters in daimyo's procession resting beneath cryptomeria trees, tomb-mound rising in the middle of rice fields at right. No. 46 in 'Upright Tokaido' series.
Producer name
Print artist:
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重
Production date
1855
Production place
Made in:
Japan
Materials
paper
Technique
woodblock
$Inscriptions
Location
Not on display
Subjects
landscape
daimyo
procession
Associated places
Topographic representation of:
Shono
Topographic representation of:
Tokaido
Acquisition name
Transferred from:
British Library
Acquisition date
1915
Acquisition notes
Transferred from Department of Oriental Manuscripts (August 1915)
Department
Asia
Registration number
1915,0823,0.767