Oiso (Print #9 in the Fifty-Five Views of the Tokaido Road series)

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Calvin University Center Art Gallery

The image is a traditional Japanese woodblock print depicting a rainy scene in a rural village, with tall trees lining a pathway and figures in straw raincoats moving among wooden houses, capturing the essence of nature's harmony and the serene lifestyle of the people amid a downpour.

The image is a traditional Japanese woodblock print depicting a rainy scene in a rural village, with tall trees lining a pathway and figures in straw raincoats moving among wooden houses, capturing the essence of nature's harmony and the serene lifestyle of the people amid a downpour.

Name/Title

Oiso (Print #9 in the Fifty-Five Views of the Tokaido Road series)

Entry/Object ID

2014.12.4.9

Description

The approach through rice-fields along a narrow road lined with trees, to a curved street of huts, overlooking the sea, and travellers entering the village under a downpour of rain. This station was an isolated village on the coast. From ancient times, many poets referred to this seashore in their poems. Now a motorway has been built along the seashore and passing motorists pay less attention to this historic place.

Type of Print

Woodcut

Category

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

Made/Created

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Dimensions

Dimension Description

image size

Height

8-5/8 in

Width

13-7/8 in