Shimosuwa, from Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaidō

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Shimosuwa, from Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaidō

Utagawa HiroshigeLinkedCulture matchlcp-058622c2ea8f

Date
1835–38
Medium
Color woodblock print
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
152501

This print shows travelers enjoying a meal at an inn, with the innkeeper looking pleased at the guests’ enthusiasm. In the background, another traveler is gratefully relaxing in a wooden tub filled with hot natural spring water, having discarded his robe next to the bath. Shimosuwa was the only stop along the Kisokaidō—a 534-kilometer (332-mile) road running from Nihonbashi in Edo (now Tokyo) to Sanjō Ōhashi in Kyoto—with a natural hot spring. The print series was a collaboration between Utagawa Hiroshige and Keisai Eisen (1790–1848).

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The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
Provenance
(R. E. Lewis, Inc., California, sold to Kelvin and Eleanor Smith) | ?–1985: The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899-1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1985–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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