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Title: Asuka hill in the Eastern Capital/ 東都あすか山 (Toto Asukayama)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored print), ink and color on paper. Residents of Edo mingle on the open lawn surrounded by pines and cherry blossoms on Asuka hill. Just past the park is the shops of Edo and Mt. Fuji framed by the trees in the foreground. The compsoition is divided by the gradient blue sky and the vibrant green grass. The smooth contour of the hill seperates the two sections. Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune planted cherry blossoms and opened the hill for the citizen of Edo. Later in 1873 Asuka would become one of the first public parks established in Meiji Japan. Site located in Oji, Kita, Tokyo.
Series: Thirty Six Views of Mt. Fuji/ 富士三十六景 (Fuji Sanjurokkei)
Subject: Japanese flowering cherry -- Japan -- Art; Fuji, Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_F8_0009
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100585
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Title: Cherry Blossoms in full bloom on Toeizan/ 東叡山花さかり
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II/ 二代目歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画); Utagawa Kunisada/ 歌川国貞 (Signature: kio Toyokuni ga/ 喜翁豊国筆)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A young woman dressed in furisode enjoys a picnic under cherry blossoms in bloom. Around her is an elaborate picnic set up at the blooming branches hang down from the top of the image. The bloom of flowers compliment the light pink florals of her kimono. In the background other visitors to the park enjoy themselves. More cherry blossom trees can be seen in the background along with the buildings of the nearby temple.
Series: Thirty-six Scenes of the Pride of Edo/ 江戸自慢三十六輿 (Edo jiman sanjūrokkyō)
Subject: Young women -- Japan -- Art; Japanese flowering cherry -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U7_E42_0026
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100981
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Title: Cherry Blossoms in the Evening at Kuken in the Shinmachi Licensed Quarter/ 新町郭中九軒夜桜 (Shinmachi kakuchû Kuken yozakura)
Creator: Utagawa Yoshitaki/ 歌川芳滝 (Signature: Yoshitaki ga/芳瀧画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. The central street is filled with townspeople and travelers coming to view the fully bloomed cherry blossoms that fill the right side of the image. Along the left side are a line of buildings with red lanterns.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Cities and towns -- Japan -- Art; Japanese flowering cherry -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0019
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100870
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Title: Hinokuchi in Tenma/ 天満樋の口 (Tenma Hinokuchi)
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. The top half of the composition is dominated the branches of brightly blooming cherry blossom trees. Bellow the branches a teahouse can be seen along the left side. A woman with her back to the viewer greets two people coming up the hill on the right. Bellow the hill is a wide waterway filled with various boats.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Tearooms -- Japan -- Art; Japanese flowering cherry -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0047
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100898
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Title: Ishiyakushi: Yoshitsune's Cherry Tree and the Shrine of Noriyori/ 石薬師義経さくら範頼の祠(Ishiyakushi, Yoshitsune sakura Noriyori no Hokora)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Mutlicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Two peasants work by the side of a stream under a cherry blossom tree in full bloom that takes up the left side of the composition. To the far right you can see the red torii gates to the shrine of Noriyori. In the distance a village sits at the foot of green hills and forests. The title of this print refers to the Cherry Blossom as Yoshitsune’s Cherry tree. This is a reference to the well known military commander Minamoto no Yoshitsune, who famously fought in the Genpei war in the twelfth century. The cherry blossom has little to do with the actual historical version of Yoshitsune but is instead connected to the Kabuki play that fictionalized his life Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees (Yoshitsune Senbonzakura.) In the play the blooming cherry blossoms of Mt. Yoshino is a central location for the events of the story. Further connecting this print to the Minamoto clan is the inclusion of the shrine of Noriyori, who was the younger brother of Yoshitsune. It is likely because this tree is outside a shrine to Noriyori that it is referred to as Yoshitsune’s cherry tree.
Series: Famous Sites of the Fifty-Three Stations/五十三次名所図会 (Gojusantsugi Meisho Zue)
Subject: Japanese flowering cherry -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T64_0045
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100658
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Title: Myoken Temple Embankment in the North
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. The two embankments of a small canal are lined with blooming cherry blossom trees. Beyond the embankments are open fields shrouded in mists and rendered in greyscale, allowing the foreground scene to stand out. In the sky a faint line of birds can be seen.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Canals -- Japan -- Art; Japanese flowering cherry -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0068
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100919
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