One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Plum Garden at Kamata
Kamata no umezono
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1857, 2nd month
What it is
Plum trees bloom in the garden at Kamata, visitors stroll beneath them, and a palanquin waits by the fence.
Why it matters
Hiroshige sets a quiet outing among the blossom, with the waiting palanquin as the only sign of the road back.
What to notice
The blossom is printed in small white and pink dots across dark branches.
A garden visit is measured by the people waiting for you.
The record
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (1797–1858)
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Date
- 1857, 2nd month
- Publisher
- Uoya Eikichi
- Medium
- woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art · JP2510
Impression note. 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. 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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