print
- Museum number
- 1960,0514,0.8
- Title
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Object: Hachikenya chakusen no zu 八けん屋着船之図 (Boats arriving at Hachikenya)
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Series: Naniwa meisho zue 浪花名所之図 (Famous Places in Osaka)
- Description
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Colour-woodblock print. Unloading cargo at Hachikenya.
- Production date
- 1834 (circa)
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- Curator's comments
- "Eight Inns" (Hakkenya) was so named after the eight hostelries for travellers located at this, the busiest point of embarcation by boat up the Yodo River to Fushimi and Kyoto. It was situated on the south bank between the great Temma and Tenjin Bridges, not far from Osaka castle. Hiroshige's series of ten prints of Osaka pays more attention to the bustling figures than the landscape itself. Even more than his views of Kyoto from the same publisher, the Osaka set turns out to be completely derived from a printed gazetteer, "Settsu meisho zue" (1796), illustrated by Takehara Shunchosai. It is doubtful that Hiroshige visited Osaka before designing the prints. (label copy, TTC, 1997)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1960
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1960,0514,0.8
