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Follow the long fall of her pink-lined robe to the foot of the sheet, then look up past her pink head cloth to Mount Fuji above the distant shore.
This very tall, narrow sheet is a pillar print, a format first made to decorate wooden pillars. Torii Kiyonaga designed it about 1783: a woman in a black robe scattered with pale dots crosses Nihonbashi bridge, past the dark top of a railing post, while Mount Fuji rises in the distance. The verse at the top mentions Fuji and Nihonbashi.
Color woodblock print; hashira-e · 71.1 × 12.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Finely-Dressed Woman Crossing Nihonbashi Bridge
- Artist
- Torii Kiyonaga Japanese, 1752-1815
- Date
- c. 1783
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hashira-e
- Dimensions
- 71.1 × 12.6 cm (28 × 5 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Michener
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.