The "Pine of Success" and Oumayagashi on the Asakusa River
1856 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Library of Congress, Washington, DC
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About this work
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
- Year
- 1856
- 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-02934; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
On a dark night under a sky full of stars, a roofed pleasure boat with a green blind glides toward the bank, and the long branches of a pine reach out over the water from the upper left. Small boats cross the river and the far shore is a low band of roofs. The print is number sixty-one in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, published by Uoya Eikichi, with a censor's seal of the eighth month of 1856. The pine stood on the riverbank by the shogunate's rice granaries and was a well-known landmark for boats on the Sumida. The deep blue-black of the sky and water is broken only by small reserved stars; 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
Night blue and soft green with a pale wooden boat, for a bedroom, study or reading corner at 24×36 in black. It pairs with Night View of Matsuchiyama and the San'ya Canal for two night views of the Sumida.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (1856)
- 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).
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