Eight Views of Kanazawa at Night (1857): Art, History and Details
Eight Views of Kanazawa at Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1857, Triptych of color woodblock prints. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Eight Views of Kanazawa at Night (1857) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Late in his career, Hiroshige explored the poetic theme of setsugekka, “snow, moon, and flowers,” in a set of three triptychs. This panoramic scene shows the autumn moon over Kanazawa, near Tokyo. Hiroshige’s contemporaries would have recognized the coastline dotted with villages, fishing boats, and the distinctive double-arched bridge at the bottom right.
Object facts
- Title: Eight Views of Kanazawa at Night
- Date: 1857
- Creator attribution: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Type: Print
- Technique: Triptych of color woodblock prints
- Dimensions: Sheet: 35.6 x 24.8 cm (14 x 9 3/4 in.); Overall: 35.6 x 24.8 cm (14 x 9 3/4 in.)
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Department: Japanese Art
- Accession number: 1921.410
Collection credit
Gift from J. H. Wade
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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