Ageo: The Kamo Shrine
c. 1835–36 · Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper · Library of Congress, Washington, DC
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Keisai Eisen (1790–1848)
- Year
- c. 1835–36
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Original size
- 21.8 × 34 cm
- Collection
- Library of Congress, Washington, DC (impression LCCN 2008660035; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō
Outside a thatched building beside the Kamo Shrine, workers thresh and bundle rice straw, one feeding grain into a wooden winnowing machine while another stoops over the sheaves. Long white banners lettered with the shrine's name hang among the pines at the right, and along the road at the left travellers with sedge hats and shoulder loads walk beside a blue stream under a red band of sky. This is print six of The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō, published by Hōeidō and later Kinjudō, c. 1835–36. Keisai Eisen, who designed it, began the series and Utagawa Hiroshige completed it. Ageo was the fifth station on the Nakasendō, the inland road from Edo to Kyoto; impressions vary in colour and condition.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Teal pines, golden thatch and red banner lettering over a pale road, for a kitchen, dining room or hallway at 24×16 in natural wood. It pairs with Okegawa: View of the Open Plain, the next station's farmyard scene.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (c. 1835–36)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- kitchen, dining room, hallway or entryway, living room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×16. Prints at 18×12, 24×16, 36×24 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard; 36×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or natural wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
