Ageo: The Kamo Shrine
c. 1835–36 · Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper · Library of Congress, Washington, DC
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About this work
- Artist
- Keisai Eisen (1790–1848)
- Year
- c. 1835–36
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Original size
- 21.8 × 34 cm
- Collection
- Library of Congress, Washington, DC (impression LCCN 2008660035; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō
Outside a thatched building beside the Kamo Shrine, workers thresh and bundle rice straw, one feeding grain into a wooden winnowing machine while another stoops over the sheaves. Long white banners lettered with the shrine's name hang among the pines at the right, and along the road at the left travellers with sedge hats and shoulder loads walk beside a blue stream under a red band of sky. This is print six of The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō, published by Hōeidō and later Kinjudō, c. 1835–36. Keisai Eisen, who designed it, began the series and Utagawa Hiroshige completed it. Ageo was the fifth station on the Nakasendō, the inland road from Edo to Kyoto; impressions vary in colour and condition.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Teal pines, golden thatch and red banner lettering over a pale road, for a kitchen, dining room or hallway at 16×24 in natural wood. It pairs with Okegawa: View of the Open Plain, the next station's farmyard scene.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (c. 1835–36)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- kitchen, dining room, hallway or entryway, living room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. 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. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
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
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
