Mariko (Print #21 in the Fifty-Five Views of the Tokaido Road series)

Print

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Calvin University Center Art Gallery

In this artwork, a hiker with a pack walks on a path beside a rustic tea house featuring a thatched roof. Three people inside the establishment, dressed in traditional attire, seem engaged in conversation or business. A leafless tree stands nearby, and soft hills rise gently in the distance.

In this artwork, a hiker with a pack walks on a path beside a rustic tea house featuring a thatched roof. Three people inside the establishment, dressed in traditional attire, seem engaged in conversation or business. A leafless tree stands nearby, and soft hills rise gently in the distance.

Name/Title

Mariko (Print #21 in the Fifty-Five Views of the Tokaido Road series)

Entry/Object ID

2014.12.4.21

Description

Two travellers having refreshment at a wayside teahouse, from which another traveller has just departed, and a woman with a child on her back waiting on them. Beside the teahouse grows a plum tree, just bursting into blossom against the rosy sky; behind rises a grey hill tinted with brown. Here, travellers enjoy grated yam broth, the local speciality, while appreciating the green leaves and plum flowers of the early spring. Basho, the most famous haiku poet in Japan, praised the scenery and the broth in one of his haiku poems.

Type of Print

Woodcut

Category

Vault, Japanese, People, Architecture, Landscape, Plants and Nature
Ethnic

Made/Created

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Dimensions

Dimension Description

image size

Height

8-5/8 in

Width

13-7/8 in