The Floating World

One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

The City Flourishing, the Tanabata Festival

市中繁栄七夕祭 · Shichū han’ei Tanabata matsuri

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1857, 7th month

それは何か

Bamboo poles hung with paper decorations for the Tanabata festival rise above the rooftops of Edo, with Edo Castle and Mount Fuji in the distance.

なぜ重要か

It is the only print in the series without a place name in its title, and it may show the view from Hiroshige’s own house.

注目すべき点

The decorations float against an open sky, and the city below them is a sea of low roofs.

A festival seen from home.

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, 7th month
版元
Uoya Eikichi
技法
woodblock print; ink and color on paper
出典
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · JP62

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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