No. 5: Yoshitsune Takes a Shortcut and Scales the Steep and Dangerous Precipice at Hiyodori Pass (Gokai, Kando ni omomuku Yoshitsune Hiyodori goe no kenshun nansho o yojinoboru), from the series "The Life of Yoshitsune (Yoshitsune ichidaiki no uchi)"

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Title

No. 5: Yoshitsune Takes a Shortcut and Scales the Steep and Dangerous Precipice at Hiyodori Pass (Gokai, Kando ni omomuku Yoshitsune Hiyodori goe no kenshun nansho o yojinoboru), from the series "The Life of Yoshitsune (Yoshitsune ichidaiki no uchi)"

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality:)

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1827–1839

Medium

Color woodblock print; oban

Dimensions

25.7 × 38.4 cm (10 1/8 × 15 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection

Reference Number

1943.612

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