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Echigoya Dry-Goods Shop, Suruga-cho, #8 in the series One Hundred Views of Edo
Artist
Andō Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797-1858)
Date1856
Mediumwoodblock print
Dimensionsmat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
mount: 19 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (49.5 × 34.3 cm)
sheet: 13 5/8 × 9 1/8 in. (34.6 × 23.2 cm)
image: 13 3/8 × 8 5/8 in. (34 × 21.9 cm)
mount: 19 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (49.5 × 34.3 cm)
sheet: 13 5/8 × 9 1/8 in. (34.6 × 23.2 cm)
image: 13 3/8 × 8 5/8 in. (34 × 21.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Miss Fillette Many
Exhibition History"Impressions: Printmaking in Japan," Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Joy Light Gallery of Asian Art (Apr. 1 - July 23, 2017).
"Sugoi! 200 Years of Japanese Art," KIA, Galleries 2 & 5 (May 13, 2023 - September 24, 2023)Label TextThe Mitsui family’s Echigoya drapery store in Edo (now Tokyo) was the forerunner of today's fashionable Mitsukoshi department store. The massive store lined both sides of the street. The street was named Suruga-cho because it framed Edo's best view of
Mt. Fuji, located in the old Suruga (now Shizuoka) Province. The Western-style, one-point perspective of the street leads the eye from the foreground to the mountain in the background. The insertion of a cloud formation in the middle-ground was a common device Japanese artists used to signal a shift in distance or a narrative break.
