Nagakubo: Full Moon over the Bridge
c. 1835–38 · Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper · The Art Institute of Chicago
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
- Year
- c. 1835–38
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Original size
- 24.5 × 36.6 cm
- Collection
- The Art Institute of Chicago (impression 1932.173; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō
A full moon rises over grey hills, and a long wooden bridge crosses the river in silhouette, with walkers, a porter and a horse and rider passing over it as dark shapes. On the moonlit near bank two children play with dogs, one riding a white dog, while a man leads a packhorse past a pine toward a red-walled house. This is print twenty-eight of The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō, published by Hōeidō and later Kinjudō, c. 1835–38. Keisai Eisen began the series and Utagawa Hiroshige, who designed this sheet, completed it. Nagakubo was the twenty-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
Moonlit grey-blue water, a pale yellow bank and a dark pine, for a bedroom, living room or nursery at 16×24 in natural wood. It pairs with Mochizuki: Pines in the Moonlight, the moonlit station two stops before.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (c. 1835–38)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cornflower blue, cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, nursery, 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).
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
