Shitaya Hirokōji
1856 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · National Diet Library, Tokyo
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About this work
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
- Year
- 1856
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Original size
- approx. 36 × 24 cm (ōban)
- Collection
- National Diet Library, Tokyo (impression pid 1303217; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
A wide avenue runs past a large merchant's building at the right, its blue-tiled roof and shopfront curtains in red and indigo with white crests, while a party of women under matching red-and-white umbrellas files along the street at the left. Porters and passers-by fill the road, and the trees of Ueno hill rise at the end of the view under a pink evening sky. The print is number thirteen in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, published by Uoya Eikichi, with a censor's seal of the ninth month of 1856. Hirokōji means broad street: these wide roads were cleared in Edo as firebreaks and became busy places for trade. The repeated umbrellas and crests make a bright pattern against the grey road; 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
Indigo and red shopfronts with a stream of red-and-white umbrellas, for a hallway, kitchen or home office at 16×24 in black. It pairs with Ueno Yamashita, the neighbouring street at the foot of the same hill.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (1856)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cornflower blue, cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- kitchen, 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, 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.
