Fukuroi Dejaya No Zu (An Outdoor Tea Stall at Fukuroi), is a polychrome woodblock print on paper, the plate n. 28 from the series Fifty-three Stations Along the Tokaido (Tokaido Gosantsugi no uchi). This plate, as well all the plates of the whole printed suite, was designed by the ukiyo-e old master, Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重, 1797-1858) around 1833-34, after his travel along the Tokaido in 1832. Horizontal Oban. In good condition, except for visible paper wrinkles and other aging signs (yellowing of the paper, stains or foxing along the margins), and although some lacks in the print, this ukiyo-e print has preserved still today its beauty and charme, showing the talented graphic touch of Hiroshige. A copy of the same plate is preserved at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California. Collect this superb ukiyo-e, depicting a pleasant break-time with a tea under the shadow of a tree, to embellish your house with a sophisticated Oriental touch! The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (東海道五十三次, Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi), is a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created by Utagawa Hiroshige after his first travel along the Tōkaidō in 1832. The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō was such a popular subject that led Hiroshige to create some 30 series of woodcut prints on it, all very different one from the other by their size (ōban or chuban), their designs or even their number (some series include just a few prints). The Tōkaidō road, linking the shōgun's capital, Edo, to the imperial one, Kyōto, was the main travel and transport artery of old Japan. This was also the most important of the "Five Roads" (Gokaidō)—the five major roads of Japan created or developed during the Edo period to further strengthen the control of the central shogunate administration over the whole country. The Hōeidō edition of the Tōkaidō is Hiroshige's best known work, and the best sold ever ukiyo-e Japanese prints. Created after Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, this print series established this new major theme of ukiyo-e, the landscape print, or fūkei-ga, with a special focus on "famous views" (meisho). Hiroshige's series met a full success, not only in Japan, but later in Western countries. Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重, 1797-1858) Born Andō Hiroshige, Hiroshige was the best known Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Remembered for his horizontal-format landscape series, the obans of the porint series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868). The Hiroshige's death marked the beginning of a rapid decline in the ukiyo-e genre, especially in the face of the westernization that followed the Meiji Restoration of 1868, but the Hiroshige trends returned under the name of “Japonism” on western European painting towards the close of the 19th century. Famous artists, such as Manet and Monet, collected and closely studied Hiroshige's compositions.
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