print
- Museum number
- 2025,3007.4
- Title
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Object: Tokyo Story 8: Temple (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 of lantern hanging in the Kaminarimon gate of Asakusa Temple, view of Kannon Hall and pagoda, with addition of a ferris wheel, and artist's painting on an easel. Digital collage of photographs taken by the artist during a trip to Japan in 2009, based on the print 'Kinryuzan in Asakusa' by Utagawa Hiroshige (compare 1948,0508,0.8). No. 8 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
- Frame of Kaminarimon Gate, Senso-ji temple, Asakusa, along left edge. The giant lantern is sponsored by temple patrons and hung in the gate. Affixed to the gate at lower left is a shimenawa or straw rope with zigzag streamers (gohei), a boundary marker used to indicate a sacred place or object. The sign at lower right reads, 'Stickers including personal votive slips (senjafuda) and advertising are prohibited.' Behind the painting of the Five-Storied Pagoda is a small structure photographed at Meiji Jingu Shrine containing ema, or votive plaques inscribed with visitors' hopes and wishes. The temple building in the background is Zojoji Temple. The dragon painting is from a screen at Ryogen-in, a subtemple of Daitoku-ji, Kyoto.
(Emily Allchurch, 26/1/2025)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 10 Jan 2025
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2025,3007.4
