print
- Museum number
- 2025,3007.5
- Title
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Object: Tokyo Story 11: Picture Window (after Hiroshige)
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Series: Tokyo Story
- Description
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Print, archival pigment on Hahnemühle photo rag paper. View through round teahouse window, past branches of flowering cherry tree, to lake and distant Mt. Fuji. Digital collage of photographs taken by the artist during a trip to Japan in 2013, based on the print 'Picture looking from the vicinity of Massaki toward Suijin-no-mori, Uchikawa and Sekiya Village' by Utagawa Hiroshige (compare 1948,0410,066). No. 11 in series. Bespoke edition (Museum Edition).
- Production date
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2020 (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
- Created during the Covid pandemic as a contribution to the Artist Support Pledge scheme.
'Whilst not being able to physically travel during the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2020, it was a wonderfully restorative process to revisit my Japanese image library from Spring 2013, when I was invited to Shizuoka Prefecture to create two artworks inspired by Hiroshige's 'Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido' (1833-34) (namely #17 Yui: Satta Peak, and #21 Mariko: Famous Tea Shop) for the permanent collection of the Tokaido Tokyo Museum. 'Tokyo Story 11: Picture Window (after Hiroshige)' (2020) recreates the woodblock print #36 from Hiroshige's masterpiece 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo' (1856-58). In Japanese culture the peony flower is a symbol of good fortune, bravery and honour; and the cherry blossom represents a time of renewal and optimism, but also a reminder of the transience of life. The landscape through the window comprises the fishing grounds of Bentenjima and the majestic Mount Fuji is viewed from across Suruga Bay in the prefecture of Shizuoka.
(Emily Allchurch, 26/1/2025)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 10 Jan 2025
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2025,3007.5
