Kakegawa: Distant View of Mount Akiba
1833–34 · Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
- Year
- 1833–34
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Original size
- 24 × 36.2 cm
- Collection
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (impression 1948-134-27; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
On a long wooden bridge, an elderly man and his companion stop while two travellers bow low and a small boy gazes up at a kite that has broken loose and sails away on the wind. Below, farmers plant rice in the flooded fields, and beyond the water rises the dark blue bulk of Mount Akiba. The print is number twenty-seven in the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, published by Hōeidō (Takenouchi Magohachi) in 1833–34. Kakegawa, the twenty-sixth station, was a castle town, and from here a road led north to the shrine on Mount Akiba, visited by pilgrims who prayed for protection from fire; 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
Pale water, a cream bridge and a dark blue mountain, with kites against the sky, for a living room, family room or study at 24×16 in natural wood. It pairs with Kasumigaseki, another Hiroshige view with kites on long strings.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (1833–34)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- 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 24×16. Prints at 18×12, 24×16 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard.
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
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The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
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