Senba Station from the collection of John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art

Senba Station, 1848

Woodblock

9.625 x 14.4375 in

Inv: 2014.001.812

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Title: Senba Station
Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重)
Date: 1848
Medium: Woodblock on paper
Credit Line: Collection of the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art

Item description: Two boats with figures punting, one boat full of cargo (sticks?), with trees and either a sun or full moon in the background.

This piece is number 32 in Hiroshige's series Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido Road. It is a series of ukiyo-e prints, each one depicting a different location of a post office on the Kisokaido Road. The series was a collaboration with Keisei Eisen, who produced twenty-three of the seventy print. Eisen produced the first twenty-three of the series, after which Hiroshige took over.

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Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重)

Japanese

1797-1858

Born in 1797, Hiroshige was considered a master of the Ukiyo-e woodblock printing tradition, having created roughly 8,000 prints of everyday life and landscapes in the Edo-period Japan. Hiroshige began painting around the age of twelve under the tutelage of Toyohiro of the Utagawa school. His early work, depicting narrow, vertical landscapes with houses in-between cliffs and birds perched on flowering branches shows the influence of Chinese scroll painting, as well as the previously dominant Kano school of Japanese painting.

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About the artist

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