Bashō's Hermitage on Camellia Hill beside the Aqueduct at Sekiguchi
1857 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · National Diet Library, Tokyo
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About this work
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
- Year
- 1857
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Original size
- approx. 36 × 24 cm (ōban)
- Collection
- National Diet Library, Tokyo (impression pid 1303244; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
A deep blue stream winds through the foreground beside a path where a few travellers walk, and on the wooded hill at right a small thatched hermitage sits among pines and trees in red bloom. Beyond the stream, flat fields stretch away to a red band of sky. The print is number forty in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, published by Uoya Eikichi, with a censor's seal of the fourth month of 1857. The stream is the Kanda aqueduct at Sekiguchi, and the hermitage commemorated the poet Matsuo Bashō, who is said to have lived nearby while working on the aqueduct. Hiroshige gives the scene the quiet of a poem; 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
Deep stream blue, soft green and spots of red camellia, for a study, reading corner or bedroom at 16×24 in natural wood. It pairs with Benten Shrine at the Inokashira Pond, the source of the same aqueduct.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (1857)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cornflower blue
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- bedroom, study or library, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, travelers, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
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).
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