Kintai Bridge at Iwakuni, Suo (Boshu) Province from the series “One Hundred Famous Views of the Various Provinces”

Arts of Asia

1859

Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)
Japanese, 1826–1869

This print is the most celebrated design from Hiroshige II’s own large landscape series of 1859, One Hundred Famous Views of the Various Provinces. Hiroshige II likely created the series in response to the overwhelming popularity of Utagawa Hiroshige’s series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The composition echoes Hiroshige’s style, but the limited color palette, which brings out the intense blue gradation of the water, distinguishes it.

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Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)
Title: Kintai Bridge at Iwakuni, Suo (Boshu) Province from the series “One Hundred Famous Views of the Various Provinces”
Place: Japan (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1859
Medium: Color woodblock print
Dimensions: Paper: 34.8 × 22.9 cm (13 3/4 × 9 1/16 in.); Block: 33.3 × 22.1 cm (13 1/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc.
Reference Number: 1990.607.68
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