Accession Number
2008/2.330

Title
The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Kyoka Edition): #52 Ishibe

Artist(s)
Utagawa Hiroshige

Artist Nationality
Japanese (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
late 1830s

Medium & Support
woodblock print on paper

Dimensions
12 1/8 in x 15 3/4 in x 1 1/16 in (30.8 cm x 40.01 cm x 2.7 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of J C Mathes and the Tokyo Center for Language & Culture (TCLC)

Subject matter
The interior of an inn.

Physical Description
View of an interior of an inn, with tatami-matted rooms and sliding doors. The rooms have doors open. Men and women wearing yukata are resting in one of the rooms. The other room seems to be a public bathroom, with one man taking a bath in the deep soaking tubs, and the other sitting on the stool to put on his clothes.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Primary Object Type
color print

Collection Area
Asian

Rights
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Keywords
bathers
doors
flowers (plant components)
inns
interior spaces (spaces by location)