Kayadera no takadōrō, Onmayagashi noriai (High Lantern of Kaya Temple, Ferryboat Dock at Onmayagashi), from the book Ehon Sumidagawa ryōgan ichiran (Picture Book of Both Banks of the Sumida River at a Glance)
Katsushika Hokusai, Kayadera no takadōrō, Onmayagashi noriai (High Lantern of Kaya Temple, Ferryboat Dock at Onmayagashi), from the book Ehon Sumidagawa ryōgan ichiran (Picture Book of Both Banks of the Sumida River at a Glance), ca. 1804/1806, color woodblock print on paper; nishiki-e, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection, public domain, 32.388
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- Title
Kayadera no takadōrō, Onmayagashi noriai (High Lantern of Kaya Temple, Ferryboat Dock at Onmayagashi), from the book Ehon Sumidagawa ryōgan ichiran (Picture Book of Both Banks of the Sumida River at a Glance)
- Related Titles
original language: 榧寺の高灯籠 御馬屋川岸乗合
series (original language): 絵本隅田川両岸一覧
series (translated): Picture Book of Both Banks of the Sumida River at a Glance
series (transliterated): Ehon Sumidagawa ryōgan ichiran
translated: High Lantern of Kaya Temple, Ferryboat Dock at Onmayagashi
transliterated: Kayadera no takadōrō, Onmayagashi noriai
- Artist
- Date
ca. 1804/1806
- Period
Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)
- Medium
color woodblock print on paper; nishiki-e
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 8 15/16 in x 12 in; sheet: 9 9/16 in x 12 5/16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
title: 御馬屋川岸乗合, printed in black ink, upper right Transliteration (Translation): Onmayagashi noriai (ferryboat dock at Onmayagashi) Language: Japanese
title: 榧寺の高灯籠, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche, upper right Transliteration (Translation): Kayadera no takadōrō (high lantern of Kaya Temple) Language: Japanese
inscription: , printed in black ink, upper left Language: Japanese Description: Kyōka poem by Kosansei Kōki 壷山棲高喜
inscription: , printed in black ink, upper right Language: Japanese Description: Kyōka poem by Baishi 梅子
- Collection Area
Asian Art; Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
Japanese Traditional Prints
- Object Type
relief print
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection
- Accession Number
32.388
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
These prints were cut from an illustrated book tracing a year in the life of the Sumida River. Hokusai designed his images to run continuously across the book’s pages, simulating the experience of traveling upriver from Edo Bay to the Yoshiwara red-light district. The variety of people included in Hokusai’s journey, from rugged ferrymen to elegantly dressed women, demonstrates the centrality of the river to city life. Published at a time when landscape played only a minor role in print design, Hokusai’s book achieved a new and exciting integration of human life and environment. For later viewers nostalgic for Tokyo’s pre-industrial past, like the twentieth-century novelist Nagai Kafū (1879–1959), Hokusai’s vivid illustrations made “the viewer feel immersed in the atmosphere of the age.”
- Exhibitions
2005 Crowd Appeal: Impressions of Edo Japan Portland Art Museum
2011 The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints from the Portland Art Museum Portland Art Museum
2022; 2023 Human Nature: 150 Years of Japanese Landscape Prints Portland Art Museum
