Ando Hiroshige
No. 13 Numazu: Fuji in Clear Weather after Snow, from the Ashigara Mountains

No. 13 Numazu: Fuji in Clear Weather after Snow, from the Ashigara Mountains

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No. 13 Numazu: Fuji in Clear Weather after Snow, from the Ashigara Mountains
ArtistJapanese, 1797–1858
CultureJapanese
Titles
  • No. 13 Numazu: Fuji in Clear Weather after Snow, from the Ashigara Mountains
  • Ju-san Numazu Ashigarayama Fuji no yukibare
  • from the series Famous Sights of the Fifty-Three Stations (Gojusan tsugi meisho zue)
Date1855 (Ansei 2), 7th month
PlaceJapan
MediumWoodblock print; ink and color on paper
DimensionsBlock: 13 9/16 × 8 7/8 in. (34.4 × 22.5 cm)
Sheet: 14 5/8 × 9 15/16 in. (37.1 × 25.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Stephen Hamilton in honor of Kathleen Owen Schutze
Object number2005.328
Not on view

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Department
Asian Art
Object Type
Description

In the early 1830s, Ando Hiroshige traveled from Edo to Kyoto with a procession bringing horses as gifts from the shogunate to the emperor. His route: the Tokaido, a series of roads connecting Edo (present-day Tokyo)—where the Daimyo (feudal lords) lived—to the Imperial city of Kyoto.


Ando drew upon scenery from this journey for his renowned series of woodblock prints, Fifty-Three Famous Views (of the Tokaido). He produced nearly 40 versions of this album of 55 color prints, one for each stopping place, or "station," on the Tokaido and one for each terminal point: Edo and Kyoto. This particular print illustrates the view from Numazu station. Numazu lies at the southern base of Mt. Fuji—Japan’s highest and most famous mountain—and Mt. Ashigara.


ProvenanceArts and Designs of Japan, Peter Gilder, San Francisco; to Stephen Hamilton, March 2005.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed Hiroshige hitsu

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