Kanagawa: View over the Sea from the Teahouses on the Embankment (Kanagawa, dai no chaya kaijô miharashi)

Utagawa Hiroshige
Japan
1797 – 1858

Kanagawa: View over the Sea from the Teahouses on the Embankment (Kanagawa, dai no chaya kaijô miharashi)
no. 4, from the series Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi meisho zue)
1855; later impression
woodblock print, ink and colour on paper
Place made
Edo (Tokyo)
Medium
woodblock print, ink and colour on paper
Dimensions
34.2 x 22.3 cm (image)
36.0 x 22.7 cm (sheet, oban)
Credit line
David Murray Bequest Fund 1940
Accession number
401G11
Signature and date
Signed, printed in block, artist's red cartouche, l.l., "Hiroshige ga [Designed by Hiroshige]". Dated in block, circular date seal, l.l. corner, "U nana [Rabbit VII]".
Media category
Print
Collection area
Asian art - Japan