Drying Strips of Gourd, a Famous Product of Minakuchi

Title: Drying Strips of Gourd, a Famous Product of Minakuchi
Creator:  Utagawa Hiroshige
Period: Edo
Date: 1833
Culture: Japan
Series: Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido
Style: Ukiyo-e
Medium: woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 23 x 35 cm
RepositoryWetmore Print Collection, Art History Dept., Cummings Arts Center, Connecticut College, New London
Credit line: Gift of Prof. Caroline Black, Botany Dept., Connecticut College
ID number: slide# 0055; black001

References

Hiroshige, Japanese. Drying Strips of Gourd. color woodcut. Place: Wetmore Print Collection, Art History Dept, Cummings Arts Center, Connecticut College, New London, Donated by Prof. Caroline Black, Botany Dept, Connecticut College. https://library.artstor.org/asset/CONNASIAN_106310758469 (access to Artstor required).

“The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road .” The Woodblock Prints of Utagawa Hiroshige, www.hiroshige.org.uk/Tokaido_Series/Tokaido_Series.htm.

“Utagawa Hiroshige: Drying Strips of Gourd, a Famous Product of Minakuchi .” Ukiyo-e Search, ukiyo-e.org/image/chazen/1980_837.

Author: Ethan Milsark

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