print
- Museum number
- 2025,3007.3
- Title
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Object: Tokyo Story 5: Cherry Blossom (after Hiroshige)
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Series: Tokyo Story
- Description
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Print, archival pigment on Hahnemühle photo rag paper. Foreground with close-up detail of flowering cherry tree, background showing park area and Sumida River, homeless man in lower foreground, with banner donated by Shibata Motoyoshi, the proprietor of a sushi restaurant, to Zenizuka Jizo shrine at Sensoji temple in Asakusa. Digital collage of photographs taken by the artist during a trip to Japan in 2009, based on the print 'Sumida River, Suijin Forest and Massaki' by Utagawa Hiroshige (compare 1906,1220,0.675). No. 5 in series. Bespoke edition (Museum Edition).
- Production date
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2011 (created)
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2024 (printed)
- Dimensions
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Height: 77 centimetres (overall)
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Width: 58 centimetres (overall)
- Curator's comments
- The background is Tokyo Bay with Odaiba skyline. Rainbow Bridge in distance. A torii gate (entrance to a shrine) stands on the lawn. Bulding at lower right is Kiyomizudera Temple in Kyoto. Tied to the branches are omikuji (paper fortunes) foretelling bad luck; according to popular belief, the misfortune can be averted by tying the omikuji to a tree branch. Manicured lawn photographed at a temple in Kyoto. The red banner gives the name of a patron who has donated to a temple (in this case to the Zenizuka Jizo Hall at Sensoji, Asakusa, Tokyo.)
Emily Allchurch, 26/1/2025
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 10 Jan 2025
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2025,3007.3
