Totsuka: Motomachi Fork
1833–34 · Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
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About this work
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
- Year
- 1833–34
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Original size
- 23.9 × 36 cm
- Collection
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (impression 1948-134-6; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
A traveller swings down from his horse in front of a teahouse called Komeya, whose sign hangs from the eaves beside a row of paper plaques, while a woman at the door waits to greet him and other travellers stand by. Behind them a stone lantern and a marker post stand at a fork in the road, a man crosses a red-railed bridge at the right, and the land falls away to fields under an orange sky. The print is number six in the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, published by Hōeidō (Takenouchi Magohachi) in 1833–34. At Totsuka, the fifth station, a side road branched off from the highway toward Kamakura, and the marker post shows the way; 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 travelling clothes, a brown horse and soft green ground under an orange sky, for a hallway, entrance or study at 16×24 in black. It pairs with Fujisawa: Yugyō Temple, the next station on the road.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (1833–34)
- 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.
