"Grandpa's Teahouse" in Meguro
1857 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Library of Congress, Washington, DC
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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
- 36.3 × 24.1 cm
- Collection
- Library of Congress, Washington, DC (impression LC-DIG-jpd-02938; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Tall pines with red trunks frame the left side of the sheet on a green rise, and a path leads down to a small thatched teahouse at the lower right, where travellers rest under the trees. Beyond, a wide pale plain stretches to blue hills and a white Fuji under a red band of sky. The print is number eighty-four in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, published by Uoya Eikichi, with a censor's seal of the fourth month of 1857. The teahouse at Meguro was a resting place on the hills south-west of Edo, with a famous view of Fuji. The soft plain and the bare trees give the scene an autumn quiet; 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
Pine green and soft pale plain with a white Fuji, for a study, living room or bedroom at 24×36 in natural wood. It pairs with The Original Fuji in Meguro for two views from the same hills.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (1857)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cornflower blue
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, study or library, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, travelers, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. 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. 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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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.
