Title:
Outdoor tea stall at Fukuroi, number 28 from Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (The Hoeido, or Great Tokaido)
Creator/Contributor:
Utagawa Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797-1858; published by Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeido)
Date:
1832-1833
Identifier:
1965.30.309
Format:
Oban
Full-color woodcut (nishiki-e)
9 3/4 x 14 13/16 inches
Notes:
From a complete set of Hiroshige's first series of views of the Tokaido Road between Edo and Kyoto. The set of fifty-five
subjects began as a joint publication in 1832 or 1833 by Hoeido and Senkakudo, but was completed by Hoeido and issued as a
bound set in early 1834.
An early impression with embossing on smoke.
References: Uchida 1; Suzuki 1; Keyes 1; Narazaki 36
Inscription: Recto, signed Hiroshige ga at center left
Subject:
Japan; landscapes (representations); agricultural land; trees; cooking and dining; kettles; fires