The Floating World

One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Nihon Embankment at Yoshiwara

よし原日本堤 · Yoshiwara Nihonzutsumi

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1857, 4th month

それは何か

At dusk a line of geese flies over the Nihon Embankment, the raised road to the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter, where lanterns glow and figures make their way along.

なぜ重要か

The floating world centred on licensed quarters like the Yoshiwara, and Hiroshige shows the road to it at the hour people set out.

注目すべき点

The geese form a loose line across the evening sky, and the lanterns along the road are small warm points below.

The evening road to pleasure, seen from above.

記録

作者
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (1797–1858)
シリーズ
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
制作年
1857, 4th month
版元
Uoya Eikichi
技法
woodblock print; ink and color on paper
出典
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · JP2514

摺りについて。 Published 1856–59 in the vertical format Hiroshige had first used for his Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces, and reprinted often. The date seal on each sheet gives its month of publication. This is the largest clean open impression of the design the Met holds. 摺りによる違いは実在します——拭き取りや退色は一枚ごとに異なり、公開コレクションの中から最良の一枚を選ぶことこそ、当店の学芸的な仕事です。

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