Minneapolis Institute of Art

No. 28, Nagakubo

Utagawa Hiroshige; Publisher: Iseya RiheiLinkedCulture matchlcp-9b0b7dfd845e

Date

c. 1835–38

Medium

Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper

Department

Asian Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Object ID

9058

This moonlit view of a river is from one of Hiroshige's famous landscape series. A different edition without mountains in the background is also known. As deletion of compositional elements in a design typically suggests a later edition, this print, which includes mountains in the background, is regarded as an earlier edition. The later edition, however, features a blue gradation encircling the moon-an element missing in this version. Such a specialized and labor-intensive addition is highly unusual in the later edition. Therefore, it is possible that the two editions were produced around the same time. Japan, Asia

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