Asian Art / 5000 Years

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) | Awa Province: Naruto Whirlpools (Awa, Naruto no fuha) | Edo period, 19th century

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10,000 - 15,000 EUR

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woodblock print, from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue), signed Hiroshige hitsu (Brush of Hiroshige), censor’s seal aratame (examined), published by Koshimuraya Heisuke, 9th month 1855

Vertical oban: 36.4 x 24.1 cm, 14⅜ by 9½ in.

Around the vortex of a whirlpool in Naruto, Awa Province, waves tower and swell violently against rocky outcrops. Infamous for its tidal whirlpools, the narrow strait of Naruto is located between the island of Shikoku and Awaji connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Japanese Inland Sea. The planar composition has the swirling waters dominating the foreground. Plovers (chidori) above the distant mountain ridges suggest the spray of water released from the thrashing sea, an effect later repeated by Hiroshige in the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei).¹

For another impression of the same print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 21.9539, go to: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/237157

For a further impression in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET), accession number JP1198, go to: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/60024867

1. Matthi Forrer, Hiroshige: Prints and Drawings, (London, 1997), no. 61.

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