• View of Hara (<i>Hara no zu</i>: 原ノ図) from the chuban series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (<i>Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi</i>: 東海道五十三次之内)
View of Hara (<i>Hara no zu</i>: 原ノ図) from the chuban series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (<i>Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi</i>: 東海道五十三次之内)
View of Hara (<i>Hara no zu</i>: 原ノ図) from the chuban series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (<i>Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi</i>: 東海道五十三次之内)
View of Hara (<i>Hara no zu</i>: 原ノ図) from the chuban series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (<i>Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi</i>: 東海道五十三次之内)

Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)

View of Hara (Hara no zu: 原ノ図) from the chuban series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi: 東海道五十三次之内)

Print


ca 1838
Signed: Kōchōrō Kunisada (香蝶楼国貞)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei
Censor's seal: kiwame
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Diet Library
British Museum - Hiroshige's Hara - asa no Fuji 原朝之富士
Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
Mt. Fuji and Princess Kagiya Museum
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art - they date their copy to 1836
Bryn Mawr
Honolulu Museum of Art
The Spencer Museum of Art
Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts
The Library of Congress Hara is 3½ miles from Numazu.

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This is the fourteenth print in this series. The curatorial files at the Museum für angewandte Kunst in Vienna say: "...Kunisada largely adheres to Hiroshige's template. Instead of the two traveling women, however, Kunisada shows a man standing in the same posture as Hiroshige's wife (a pipe in his right hand, a straw hat in his left hand). In the foreground is a woman who wraps a towel (tenugui 手 拭 in shibori technique 絞 り 染 め) around her shoulders. Kimono and obi show a very similar pattern, albeit in different color combinations. In her belt is a sword on the side and a bamboo flute (shakuhachi 尺八) on the back. On the other side there is a medicine jar (inrō 印籠) hanging on the belt. High geta (Japanese wooden sandals)."

Gian Carlo Calza in his description in Hiroshige: The Master of Nature of the original Hiroshige print re-imagined in this scene said: "Two Manchurian cranes hunt for food in the rice field. The three travellers unfortunately seem out of place in this landscape. The two women are perhaps geisha working in the same teahouse. One holds a pipe (kiseru) in her hand and the other a walking stick. The porter wears a short jacket with a decorative motif composed of Hiroshige's "Hiro" seal." The two women are gone from the Kunisada print in the Lyon Collection and the porter no longer is wearing an outfit decorated with the "Hiro" seal.

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The mountain bordering the right-hand side of this print is Ashitakayama (愛鷹山).

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Illustrated in a small color reproduction in Kunisada's Tokaido: Riddles in Japanese Woodblock Prints by Andreas Marks, Hotei Publishing, 2013, page 65, T24-14.
Sanoya Kihei (佐野屋喜兵衛) (publisher)
landscape prints (fūkeiga 風景画) (author)