One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Fukagawa Susaki and Jūmantsubo
深川洲崎十万坪 · Fukagawa Susaki Jūmantsubo
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1857
What it is
An eagle plunges through the winter sky over the Jūmantsubo marshland at the city’s eastern edge, wings filling the top of the sheet, the snow-covered flats empty all the way to Mount Tsukuba.
Why it matters
The boldest aerial view in the series — Hiroshige hangs the viewer in the sky beside the bird, a vantage no one in Edo had ever occupied, over a landscape scoured nearly empty.
What to notice
Below the eagle’s tucked talons, almost nothing: white marsh, dark water, and a single wooden pail adrift at the bottom of the sheet — the one trace of the human city.
Winter empties the marsh. The hunter stays.
The record
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (1797–1858)
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Date
- 1857
- Publisher
- Uoya Eikichi
- Medium
- woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Source
- The Art Institute of Chicago · 1925.3761
- bokashi
Impression note. The heavy bokashi that darkens the top of the sky above the eagle is wiped by hand and varies sheet to sheet; fine impressions keep the bird’s plumage dense and black against it. Impression variance is real — printings differ in wiping and fading — and choosing the finest openly held impression is the curatorial act.
Public domain; faithfully reproduced.
Bring it home
Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm.
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