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[edit]Katsushika Hokusai: Pleasure District at Senju
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Artist |
Published by: Nishimuraya Yohachi (西村屋与八) |
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Title |
label QS:Les,"El monte Fuji visto desde el distrito del placer de Senju"
label QS:Lja,"富嶽三十六景 従千住花街眺望ノ不二"
label QS:Lde,"Der Fuji gesehen vom Vergnügungsviertel in Senju"
label QS:Lfr,"Nakahara dans la province de Sagami" |
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Series title |
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji ![]() |
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Object type |
print / woodcut print ![]() |
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Genre |
landscape painting ![]() |
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Description |
English: Colour woodblock oban print. Procession of 'alternate attendance' (sankin kotai) passing Senju in autumn: Gun-carriers' muskets sheathed in red cases; decorated tips of the spear-bearers' weapons behind trees; sandals hanging under eaves at roadside tea-stall straw; two women seated on raised path through harvested fields; Mt Fuji covered with snow in distance. Inscribed and signed. |
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Date | 1830s(early) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Asia |
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Accession number |
1937,0710,0.136 |
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Notes |
Clark 2001 This is the first of the 'Thirty-Six Views of Mt Fuji' in the present catalogue to be printed with a black, not blue, outline and is one of ten supplementary designs issued after the first thirty-six were completed, the so-called views of the 'back of Fuji' ('ura-Fuji', cats 64-70 and 118-20). Senju was the first post-station on the Nikko and Oshu highways leading north-east out of Edo. Records of the Tempo era (1830-44) say that there were 55 inns and 9556 inhabitants, making it the largest of the four main post-stations ('shishuku') at the beginning of the highways out of the city. In 1764 official permission was given for Senju to employ up to 150 'serving women' ('meshimori onna') as prostitutes, thereby tacitly recognizing its status as one of the leading unlicensed pleasure quarters ('okabasho'). Yoshiwara was still the only licensed quarter ('Edo-gaku jiten', 1984, p. 47). One of the main reasons for the prosperity of Senju was the large number of northern feudal lords who regularly passed through the district with their long processions of samurai retainers, travelling between Edo and their native domains under the so-called system of 'alternate attendance' ('sankin kotai'). One such procession passes across the front of the composition: the gun-carriers' muskets are sheathed in red cases while the decorated tips of the spear-bearers' weapons are almost hidden behind the trees, bottom left. Passing the roadside tea-stall at the bottom right, where straw sandals are hanging for sale under the eaves, is the back of a palanquin ('kago') which may transport the lord himself. Feudal processions were noted for the dancing gait and colourful antics of the marching retainers, and two women have seated themselves on the raised path through the fields to watch the samurai go by. Crops have already been harvested and the generous coat of snow on Fuji suggests that the season is autumn. The wooden buildings and fire-proof storehouses surrounded by a fence in the background are part of the nine blocks of the Senju pleasure quarter. An additional impression in the British Museum collection (1906.12-20.0544) uses much paler orange and yellow for the thatch and woodwork of the foreground buildings. References: 'Ukiyo-e taikei, vol. 13: Fugaku sanju-rokkei', Tokyo, Shueisha, 1975 (text by Kobayashi Tadashi), no. 38. 'Meihin soroimono ukiyo-e, vol. 8: Hokusai I', Tokyo, Gyosei, 1991 (text by Nagata Seiji), no. 15. Julia White, 'et al.', 'Hokusai and Hiroshige: Great Japanese Prints from the James A. Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts', Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1998 (commentaries by Yoko Woodson), no. 43. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1937-0710-0-136 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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