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Women on balcony of a teahouse in Kanagawa, number 4 from the Fifty-three Stations (Jimbutsu Tokaido)

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Title: Women on balcony of a teahouse in Kanagawa, number 4 from the Fifty-three Stations (Jimbutsu Tokaido)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797-1858; published by Muraichi
Date Created and/or Issued: 1851-1852
Publication Information: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
Collection: Japanese Prints
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: From a complete set of fifty-six views of the Tokaido Road in half-block format printed on undivided oban sheets. The set is often called the Jimbutsu (or figure) Tokaido because human figures are prominent in each design. The lanterns hanging from the teahouse eaves are decorated with Hiroshige's diamond-shaped emblem.
References: Uchida 14; Suzuki 12; Keyes 20
Inscription: Recto, signed Hiroshige ga at l.r.
Type: image
Format: 1/2 oban Full-color woodcut (nishiki-e) 8 9/16 x 6 5/8 inches
Form/Genre: 1/2 oban
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt958008m3
1965.30.299d
Subject: Balconies; women; kimonos; lanterns (lighting devices)

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