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- Museum number
- 2008,3037.04326
- Title
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Object: Shimada 島田
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Series: Tokaido gojusan-tsui 東海道五十三対 (Fifty-three pairings along the Tokaido Road)
- Description
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Colour woodblock print, oban tate-e. Shimada Station; sumo wrestler being carried across the Oi River from Kanaya station on the western shore to Shimada station on the eastern shore.
- Production date
- 1845 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 36.50 centimetres
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Width: 24.20 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The subject and view recall Hiroshige's print of Kanaya station from the 'Gyosho Tokaido' series (1968,0617,0.3). Similar combination of green hill and dark mountain in Hiroshige's prints of Shimada station from the 'Upright Tokaido' series (1915,0823,0.745) and 'Tsutaya Tokaido' series (1915,0823,0.153.24). Poem inscribed on fan also inscribed on Shimada view in Hiroshige's 'harimaze Tokaido' (scrapbook-style Tokaido) series (1906,1220,0.864).
Listed in Robinson 1982, S44 no. 24
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2008
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2008,3037.04326
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 04324 (Miller Collection number)
