The Plum Orchard in Kameido (Kameido Umeyashiki), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)
Artist/Maker
Utagawa Hiroshige I 初代目歌川広重
(Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher
Uoya Eikichi 魚屋栄吉
Date1857
MediumColor woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical ōban; overall: 13 3/4 × 9 5/16 in. (34.9 × 23.6 cm)
Credit LineMary A. Ainsworth Bequest
PortfolioOne Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)
Object number1950.1396
Status
Not on viewNo. 30 (spring section) on the title page for the series. This composition features a blossoming white plum tree that stretches across the picture surface as if to obstruct our view with thick branches that undulate and protrude in all directions. Through this array of branches, we see in the foreground a gathering of admiring visitors. Umeyashiki was the popular name for the Seikōan garden near Kameido Tenjin Shrine. Among the plum trees, which numbered over 300, the Garyūbai was particularly famous. Hiroshige’s severely cropped depiction of this tree creates a striking composition.
Exhibition History
Highlights from the Ainsworth Collection of Japanese Woodblock Prints
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 15, 1988 - June 12, 1988 )
Re-Inventing Tokyo: Japan's Largest City in the Artistic Imagination
- Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA (August 25, 2012 - December 30, 2012 )
Ukiyo-e Prints from the Mary Ainsworth Collection
- Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan (April 13, 2019 - May 25, 2019 )
- Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan (June 8, 2019 - July 28, 2019 )
- Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Osaka, Japan (August 10, 2019 - September 29, 2019 )
Ukiyo-e Prints from the Mary Ainsworth Collection
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 14, 2020 - December 6, 2020 )
Collections
- Asian
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