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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.74
People
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Japanese (1797 - 1858)
Title
Mishima: Morning Mist (Mishima, asagiri), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 東海道五十三次之内 三島 朝霧
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
19th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/208900

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Technique
Woodblock print
Dimensions
horizontal ōban: H. 24.7 × W. 37.1 cm (9 3/4 × 14 5/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.4.74
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
A group of travellers, one in a kago and another on a pack-horse, are coming through the mist past the entrance to a temple-precinct at the right. Other figures, houses and trees are half lost in the morning mist.

Exhibition History

  • HAA 1 Survey Course (S421): Landmarks of World Art and Architecture (Spring 2010), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/05/2010 - 05/09/2010

Verification Level

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