Fukushima: The Barrier Gate
c. 1837 · Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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About this work
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
- Year
- c. 1837
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Original size
- 22.2 × 34.9 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (impression JP2499; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō
Travellers in wide yellow hats, some carrying boxes on shoulder poles, pass along a road toward the open gate of a fenced barrier, where an official sits in the guardhouse behind. A stone wall and a green bank line the road on the left, a grassy slope rises on the right, and tall pines with red-brown trunks spread their branches against a deep blue sky. This is print thirty-eight of The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō, published by Hōeidō and later Kinjudō, c. 1837. Keisai Eisen began the series and Utagawa Hiroshige, who designed this sheet, completed it. Fukushima was the thirty-seventh station on the Nakasendō, the inland road from Edo to Kyoto; the English title is descriptive, and 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
Deep blue sky, green banks and red-brown pines around a grey road, for a hallway, entrance or study at 16×24 in black. It pairs with Imasu: The Provincial Boundary for two border crossings on the road.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (c. 1837)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cornflower blue, cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, living room, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, travelers, 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.
