Akashi

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Akashi

Utagawa Kunisada; Utagawa Hiroshige; Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi; Carver: Yokogawa Takejirō

Date
1853, 4th month
Medium
Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
Department
Asian Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Two women on a balcony espy Mitsuuji walking through the reeds at Akashi Bay. Hiroshige later reused his landscape design for a triptych showing Kanazawa Bay in his Eight Views of Kanazawa Bay in Moonlight (Buyō Kanazawa hasshō yakei) from 1857. Japan, Asia

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