Kusatsu Station by Utagawa Hiroshige (ca. 1842)

Woodblock print of travelers and a palanquin porter passing pine and blossoming trees beside a lake with distant mountains.

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Kusatsu Station, Utagawa Hiroshige (ca. 1842), The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Via artnap.com

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A woodblock print showing a roadside scene with a tall pine and flowering trees in red and pink, beside a broad blue-green lake. Two figures in straw hats walk with a pole carried over their shoulders while a porter carries a yellow palanquin along the embankment, with thatched roofs and mountains in the distance. The print is credited to Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1842, and carries the Tokaido road series inscription with the station name Kusatsu.

Museum record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Date

ca. 1842

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

22.5 × 34.3 cm

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

License

CC0

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