Mishima: Morning Mist (Mishima, asagiri), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi)

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

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