Fukushima: The Barrier Gate

Utagawa Hiroshige

c. 1837 · Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Complete the setHangs well with these two

This print

Fukushima: The Barrier Gate

Agematsu: The Waterfall

Akasaka: The Bridge over the Stream

3 × $59 at 24 × 16 in, unframed = $177 → $159.30 as a set · 10% included · free shipping

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About this work

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
Year: c. 1837
Medium: Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
Original size: 22.2 × 34.9 cm
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (impression JP2499; many other impressions exist)
Movement: Ukiyo-e
Series: Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō

Travellers in wide yellow hats, some carrying boxes on shoulder poles, pass along a road toward the open gate of a fenced barrier, where an official sits in the guardhouse behind. A stone wall and a green bank line the road on the left, a grassy slope rises on the right, and tall pines with red-brown trunks spread their branches against a deep blue sky. This is print thirty-eight of The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō, published by Hōeidō and later Kinjudō, c. 1837. Keisai Eisen began the series and Utagawa Hiroshige, who designed this sheet, completed it. Fukushima was the thirty-seventh station on the Nakasendō, the inland road from Edo to Kyoto; the English title is descriptive, and 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

Deep blue sky, green banks and red-brown pines around a grey road, for a hallway, entrance or study at 24×16 in black. It pairs with Imasu: The Provincial Boundary for two border crossings on the road.

Style, size & framing detail

Style: Ukiyo-e painting
Era: 19th century (c. 1837)
Orientation: Landscape
Palette: cornflower blue
Mood: calm
Rooms: hallway or entryway, study or library, living room, 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. 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

• Restored in-house from the original painting — cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 18×12, 24×16 in; every size also available framed • Framed option: wood frame in black or natural wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Printed after you order at the facility nearest you, then shipped. Standard delivery is free and takes 4–9 business days from order to door in the US, UK and EU (up to 10 elsewhere); Express takes 4–6 business days. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The image fills the print at the painting's own proportions; nothing is trimmed to fit a frame.

Is Fukushima: The Barrier Gate in the public domain?

Yes. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 18×12 and 24×16 inches; every size is also offered framed in black or natural wood, with plexiglass and no mat. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was Fukushima: The Barrier Gate painted, and in what medium?

Fukushima: The Barrier Gate dates from c. 1837 and was made in woodblock print; ink and colour on paper; the original measures 22.2 × 34.9 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

Across a three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×16 is the size that reads as one statement piece; 18×12 suits a narrower wall or a pair. For Fukushima: The Barrier Gate we'd choose 24×16. It is a landscape print, wider than it is tall, at the painting's own proportions.

About this design

Fukushima: The Barrier Gate (Utagawa Hiroshige) — Fukushima: The Barrier Gate, Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō · Utagawa Hiroshige · c. 1837. This is a fine-art reproduction of a public-domain masterwork, shown whole and uncropped on a gallery ground, printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Every size is offered unframed or framed in black or natural wood. Part of the Madten Fine Art Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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