Chiryu - #40 of the Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido Road series

Print

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Calvin University Center Art Gallery

The image is a traditional Japanese woodblock print depicting a serene pastoral scene with a group of horses grazing in a lush, green field, overseen by a few farmers wearing straw hats, against a backdrop of a tranquil sea and a vividly colored sky, highlighted by a lone, windswept tree.

The image is a traditional Japanese woodblock print depicting a serene pastoral scene with a group of horses grazing in a lush, green field, overseen by a few farmers wearing straw hats, against a backdrop of a tranquil sea and a vividly colored sky, highlighted by a lone, windswept tree.

Name/Title

Chiryu - #40 of the "Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido Road" series

Entry/Object ID

1975.2.35

Description

A number of horses tethered near a tree in the fields, where a fair is held in the summer. This area was noted for Japanese iris(kakitsubata). A famouse poet who once passed by this vicinity adorned with irises composed a poem expressing the loneliness of his long journey from Kyoto where his wife remained.

Type of Print

Woodcut

Category

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

Made/Created

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Date made

circa 1920

Dimensions

Dimension Description

image size

Height

8-3/4 in

Width

14 in

Dimension Description

frame size

Height

16 in

Width

21 in

Exhibitions

Permanent Collection - Center Art Gallery: summer 1975
Loan - Japanese Prints @ Muskegon Hackley Museum of Art: 1976
Permanent Collection - Center Art Gallery: summer 1980
Permanent Collection - Center Art Gallery: summer 1989