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Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Mie River, Yokkaichi (Yokkaichi, Miegawa), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan-tsugi no uchi)
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn

Mie River, Yokkaichi (Yokkaichi, Miegawa), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan-tsugi no uchi)

Dateca. 1832-34
Maker Utagawa Hiroshige Japanese, 1797-1858
Label TextThis compositin is from Utagawa Hiroshige’s best-known print series, Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi, which was published from 1833 to 1834 as fifty-five prints depicting the beginning, end, and all fifty-three stations along early-modern Japan’s most important and frequently traveled overland route. At the forty-third station, Yokkaichi, about 145 miles west where the Tōkaidō intersects with another major road, a man chases after his hat after it is carried off in a heavy wind.
Object number2017.23.17
Provenance[Egenolf Gallery, Burbank, California]; purchased from gallery by Allan Kollar, Seattle, Washington, 2006; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2017
Photo CreditPhoto: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints, Apr. 1 - July 4, 2010. Text by Catherine Roche. Cat. no. 52, reproduced p. 75. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Legends, Tales, Poetry: Visual Narrative in Japanese Art, Dec. 22, 2012 - July 21, 2013.
Credit LineGift of Mary and Allan Kollar, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
DimensionsSheet: 9 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. (24.1 x 37.5 cm)
MediumWoodblock print; ink and color on paper