Shiojiri Pass: View of Lake Suwa
c. 1835 · Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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About this work
- Artist
- Keisai Eisen (1790–1848)
- Year
- c. 1835
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Original size
- 25.4 × 37.5 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (impression JP1419; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō
From a steep green slope at the right, a traveller leads a horse up a stepped path while another climbs ahead with a load. Below, Lake Suwa lies frozen, its pale surface crossed by cracks, and people and packhorses walk out across the ice toward a castle on the far shore. A white Mount Fuji rises beyond, between snowy grey mountains. This is print thirty-one of The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō, published by Hōeidō and later Kinjudō, c. 1835. Keisai Eisen, who designed it, began the series and Utagawa Hiroshige completed it. Shiojiri was the thirtieth station on the Nakasendō, the inland road from Edo to Kyoto, and the view is from the pass above the lake; 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
Pale frozen lake, snowy grey peaks and a white Fuji with a band of blue, for a living room, study or office at 24×36 in natural wood. It pairs with Hokusai's Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Red Fuji) for two clear-day views of the mountain.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (c. 1835)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, study or library, home office, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, 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. 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.
