Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 21298
The Tanabata Festival
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Hiroshige歌川広重
- Date / 年代
- 1857
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / met
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 2691 × 3866 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Published by / 公開者
- 黒川トウマ
- Rights / 権利
- CC0 1.0 only when Open Access-designated
- Attribution / 表記
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Catalog note / 解説
The Tanabata Festival, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) The annual festival held on the seventh day of the seventh month is known as the Tanabata Festival. In the town of Edo, tall bamboo posts were set up with ingenious decorations, and they made a grand spectacle throughout town. Has the artist, Hiroshige, depicted such a scene from his own rooftop? Mt. Fuji rises in the distance, and the forest of decorated bamboo posts covers the town. This is proud depiction of the prosperous town of Edo
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