The great third avenue bridge in Kyoto (Kyō Sanjō ōhashi); women from Ohara, a village outside Kyoto, bringing firewood to the capital. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1830/1835.
- Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.
- Date:
- [1830/1835]
- Reference:
- 37065i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
Print fifty-five, an additional print to the fifty-three stations of the route; the capital Kyoto, the destination
Publication/Creation
Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], [1830/1835]
Physical description
1 print : woodcut, printed in colours
Contributors
Lettering
Kōchōrō Kunisada-ga
The numbering in ink has been crudely added to these later impressions by hand to each print
Bears publisher's mark, censor's seal and set title
Notes
Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi: along the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō highway, no. 55
One print from a set of fifty-three chūban size prints (fifteen of which are in this catalogue)
Creator/production credits
Kunisada used Hiroshige's landscapes from a set of the same name to provide backgrounds for the beautiful women of his designs, from the early to middle 1830s
Reference
Wellcome Collection 37065i
Type/Technique
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores