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Kanbara – Historic Print

Kanbara, [between 1836 and 1844] — historic print
Kanbara, [between 1836 and 1844]. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Kanbara was a post town on the Tōkaidō, the highway linking Edo and Kyoto, and this print shows it in deep winter, with snow covering the village and a woman and a bull rider moving through the scene. The series it belongs to, the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, is Hiroshige's best-known set of landscape prints, showing travelers and villagers along the road. Its vertical format and color woodcut technique reflect the popularity of the series in the late 1830s and early 1840s, when such prints were widely sold to travelers and collectors.

Created / published[between 1836 and 1844]
Medium1 print : woodcut, color ; 25.5 x 18.9 cm.
Genreorganized by the Library of Congress, 2001. Preliminary catalog record
NotesTitle and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Vertical Chuban Kishikie. From the series: Ttōkaidō gojū santsuigi nouchi : The fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō Road. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ..., 2001, no. 26, p. 58. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows
SubjectsWomen--Japan--1830-1850. Winter--Japan--1830-1850. Snow--Japan--1830-1850. Villages--Japan--1830-1850. Bull riding--Japan--1830-1850.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,582 × 4,429 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221880

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