Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 51345
Surugadai in Edo (Tôto Sundai)
東都駿ダイ
- Artist / 作者
- Katsushika Hokusai葛飾北斎
- Date / 年代
- 1830-1833
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / aic
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 2000 × 1360 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Published by / 公開者
- 朝倉レン
- Rights / 権利
- CC0 1.0 when is_public_domain=true
- Attribution / 表記
- Katsushika Hokusai. Surugadai in Edo (Tôto Sundai), 1830-1833. The Art Institute of Chicago.
Catalog note / 解説
Sundai is present-day Surugadai in the Kanda district of Tokyo. During the Edo period, the area was filled with mansions of the shogun’s retainers. It was also famous for its views of Mount Fuji, seen from the hills. This scene is composed of highlands that gradually rise from center to left and are topped with tall, spreading trees. The space from center to right in the foreground is filled with large tiled roofs of two houses that seem, from this viewpoint, to rise to the height of the hills on the left, thereby creating a dip in the center of the composition. Fuji rises across the fields and beyond the clusters of small roofs in this dip. On the street in the foreground, a variety of ped…
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