Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 27461
Print by Ichiryusai Hiroshige (Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE) (1837)
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Hiroshige歌川広重
- Date / 年代
- 1837
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / kruml
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 1990 × 1377 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Japanese Prints London
- Published by / 公開者
- 星野アカリ
- Rights / 権利
- No commercial-app permission documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Japanese Prints London
Catalog note / 解説
Seba from the Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido. The set was started by Eisen and published by Hoeido in 1835, but in 1837 Hiroshige took over and completed the series with the publisher Iseiri ( Kinjudo ). Seba literally means ‘washing the horse’ and this is the place where Minamoto no Yoshinaka ( 1145-84 ) was once supposed to have cleaned his horse in the River Narai which meanders through the plains near Lake Suwa. The men on boats appear to be trying to reach Seba before nightfall. The masterpiece from the set. Numerous states exist of this print and there is not enough room here to go into them all: Some impressions have grey/black clouds above, some blue; some have a red cloud acr…
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