Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 23372
Fukagawa Susaki and Jûmantsubo (Fukagawa Susaki Jûmantsubo)
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Hiroshige歌川広重
- Date / 年代
- 1857
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / mfa
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 1058 × 1500 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston
- Published by / 公開者
- 白石カナ
- Rights / 権利
- Commercial license required
- Attribution / 表記
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Catalog note / 解説
This dramatic composition shows the desolate coastlands and the Fukagawa Plain. A large golden eagle dominates the top of the composition as it descends towards the icy waters below. This sharp contrast between the flat, expansive land fading into the distance and the extreme close-up is a device Hiroshige repeatedly uses in this series. The double-peaked mountain on the far right is identified as Mt. Tsukuba. Its unique shape suggests a connection to the sacred Buddhist mountain Ryöjusen (Sanskrit: grdhraküta, literally, “Sacred Eagle Mountain”), where Shakyamuni is said to have preached. Shiba Kökan (1747-1818), a Western-style painter of the Edo period, depicted the mountain in his work,…
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