print
- Museum number
- 2025,3007.6
- Title
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Object: Tokyo Story 12: Spring Festival (after Hiroshige)
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Series: Tokyo Story
- Description
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Print, archival pigment on Hahnemühle photo rag paper. Foreground view of large, orange carp banner (koi-nobori) hung for Children's Day (Kodomo-no-hi; 5th May), and looking beyond to parkland, urban landscape, and Mt. Fuji. Digital collage of photographs taken by the artist during a trip to Japan in 2013, based on the print 'Suido Bridge and Surugadai' by Utagawa Hiroshige (compare 1948,0410,072). No. 12 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 12: Spring Festival (after Hiroshige)' (2020) recreates the woodblock print #48 from Hiroshige's masterpiece 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo' (1856-58). The composition is dominated by the koi (carp) windsocks flown in spring to celebrate Japan's Children's Day on 5th May. The background depicts the landscape around Shizuoka, with aerial views of the city from Mt. Kiyomizu Park, and the magnificent Mount Fuji viewed from the Nihondaira Plateau across Suruga Bay.
(Emily Allchurch, 26/1/2025)
- Location
- On display (G35/dc90)
- Acquisition date
- 10 Jan 2025
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2025,3007.6
