One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Series: The City Flourishing, Tanabata Festival
Object NameWoodblock Print
Artist / Maker
Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858)
Date1857
MediumInk on paper.
Dimensions9 1/4 x 14 in. (23.5 x 35.6 cm)
ClassificationsPrints and Printing Plates
Credit LineGift of David L. Rose. In the Permanent Collection, Brunnier Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Object numberUM2007.249
Status
Not on viewCollections
CultureJapanese
Label TextThis is one of seven prints in the Brunnier collection from Hiroshige's last great series of prints. The decorations tied atop long bamboo poles outside houses identify the day as Tanabata, the annual festival held on the seventh day of the seventh month.
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