Oumayagashi
1857 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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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
- 34.7 × 22.5 cm
- Collection
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (impression RP-P-1956-749; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
At dusk, two women in hoods stand in a ferry boat at the left as the boatman waits, while the branches of a large tree and a willow hang over the river from the right. Across the wide grey-blue water, low roofs line the far bank under a darkening sky. The print is number one hundred and five in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, published by Uoya Eikichi, with a censor's seal of the twelfth month of 1857. Oumayagashi was a riverbank on the Sumida beside the shogunate's rice granaries, where a ferry crossed to the eastern side. The muted colours and the stones along the shore give the print a cool winter evening mood; 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
Cool grey-blue water and soft green under a dusk sky, for a study, bedroom or reading corner at 24×36 in black. It pairs with The "Pine of Success" and Oumayagashi on the Asakusa River, another view of the same riverbank.
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 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).
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.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
