Kanō: The Daimyo Procession
c. 1835–37 · Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper · The Cleveland Museum of Art
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About this work
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
- Year
- c. 1835–37
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Original size
- 22.1 × 34.7 cm
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art (impression 1985.321; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō
A daimyo's procession files along a road, its men in flat hats and green and blue coats, led by bearers carrying two tall spears topped with white plumes. Two travellers kneel at the left as it passes. Tall pines rise from the fields, a thatched teahouse stands at the right, and the white walls and keep of a castle show behind under a pink and cream sky. This is print fifty-four of The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō, published by Hōeidō and later Kinjudō, c. 1835–37. Keisai Eisen began the series and Utagawa Hiroshige, who designed this sheet, completed it. Kanō was the fifty-third 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
Soft sea-green fields, dark pines and a pink-edged sky with a line of figures in blue and green, for a hallway, study or home office at 36×24 in black. It pairs with Hiroshige's Nihonbashi: Morning View, another daimyo procession on the road.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (c. 1835–37)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Palette
- cornflower blue
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, home office, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, travelers, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 36×24. Prints at 18×12, 24×16, 36×24 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard; 36×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
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.
