Odawara Sakawa-gawa, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)

Medium

Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print

Dimensions

sheet: 9 × 14 in. (22.8 × 35.5 cm)

Credit Line

Anonymous gift

Accession Number

1948.91

Geography
Culture
Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Private Collection, New York; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1948
Bibliography
  • Utagawa Hiroshige, The Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido (Nagoya, Japan: Tokai Bank Foundation, 1984)
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Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Sakawa-gawa 酒匂川 (rectangular, intaglio, upper left after the title)\r\nPublisher’s seal mark: Hōei-dō 保永堂 (round, relief, upper left after the signature)\r\n

Inscriptions

Tōkaidō gojū-san tsugi no uchi: Odawara 東海道五捨三次之内 小田原 (upper left)

Signed

“Hiroshige ga” (“painted by Hiroshige”) 廣重画 (upper left)

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