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Source Description
Dressed in elaborate cotton kimonos, two girls appear a bit over-dressed for the task at hand. Beneath their tie-dyed head coverings, they each sport hairstyles of the highest urban fashion. These are elegant urban women costumed to play the roles of tea plantation workers in the famed Fuchu region. Hiroshige is presenting his urban patrons with a fantasy that appeals both to their sense of fashion and to their love of fine tea.
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Document identity
localId
569
label
Tokaido gojusan tsui
core
obj
dtoType
print
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
569
sourceUrl
contentType
print
stage
normalized
title
Tokaido gojusan tsui
description
Dressed in elaborate cotton kimonos, two girls appear a bit over-dressed for the task at hand. Beneath their tie-dyed head coverings, they each sport hairstyles of the highest urban fashion. These are elegant urban women costumed to play the roles of tea plantation workers in the famed Fuchu region. Hiroshige is presenting his urban patrons with a fantasy that appeals both to their sense of fashion and to their love of fine tea.
provenance
C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.
date
1845-46 (late Edo)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Prints
woodblock prints
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
36
height
25
dimensionsRaw
14 3/16 x 9 13/16 in. (36 x 25 cm)
style
Utagawa School
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
[Signature] Hiroshige ga
med
mulberry paper, pigments
creator_ids
14920
4238
collection_ids
JPK
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
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0
type
photo
mediaId
33557b9a990f538e