Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival
1857 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · The Art Institute of Chicago
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
- Year
- 1857
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Original size
- 35.9 × 24.8 cm
- Collection
- The Art Institute of Chicago (impression 1961.147; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
A white cat sits on the sill of an upstairs window, looking out through the wooden lattice over open rice fields to a small white Fuji, as geese fly across the evening sky. In the distance a line of people crosses the fields toward a festival, while a towel and a few belongings lie by the window inside the quiet room. The print is number one hundred and one in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, published by Uoya Eikichi, with a censor's seal of the eleventh month of 1857. The room is in the Yoshiwara, Edo's licensed pleasure quarter, which stood among the Asakusa rice fields, and the crowds are on their way to the Tori-no-machi festival held in the eleventh month. Hiroshige tells the scene entirely through the cat and the view, with no people in the room; impressions vary in colour and condition.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Soft pink lattice and sky, muted green fields and a white cat, for a living room, study or reading corner at 16×24 in natural wood. It pairs with Moon-Viewing Point for two views out from a quiet room.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (1857)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cornflower blue
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, study or library, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, travelers, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — natural wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
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.
