Silk Shops in Ōdenma-chō
1858 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · National Diet Library, Tokyo
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
- Year
- 1858
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Original size
- approx. 36 × 24 cm (ōban)
- Collection
- National Diet Library, Tokyo (impression pid 1303280; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
A company of men in festival dress walks along a shopping street carrying a decorated standard hung with long coloured streamers, while the shop curtains behind them alternate deep indigo and red, each marked with a large white crest. A signboard hangs at the upper left and the street recedes under a clear sky. The print is number seventy-four in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, published by Uoya Eikichi, with a censor's seal of the seventh month of 1858. Ōdenma-chō was a district of wholesale textile merchants, and Hiroshige returned to it for two prints in the series. The figures are drawn large and close, more like a scene from daily life than a landscape; 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
Indigo and red shop curtains with streamers in green, yellow and red, for a hallway, dressing room or home office at 16×24 in black. It pairs with Shops with Cotton Goods in Ōdenma-chō, its companion view of the same district.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (1858)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cornflower blue
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, home office, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, travelers, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
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.
