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Scene at the precincts of Shinmei Shrine, Shiba

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Title	Scene at the precincts of Shinmei Shrine, Shiba
Description	From the Famous Places of Edo series and one of the most well-known 19th century ukiyo-e artists, famous for his landscape views, particularly his images of the Tokaido. This image was originally a part of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s collection of Japanese woodblock prints. It along with 36 others came to the Wriston from a benefactor who received them from Wright in lieu of a payment for printing services. Many of the prints have Wright’s handwritten notations in the margins. Though many of the Wright works in our collection are of lesser quality, the images serve as an example of the interest in Asian art that so informed Wright’s architecture. Though probably most known for his numerous editions of images from the Tokaido, Hiroshige also produced a number of prints and editions of other well-known landscape sites. Among them were Famous Places of the Eastern Capital, Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces, and Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji, among others. These series were a modern interpretation of a much earlier tradition in which Chinese artists and poets would paint and write about important locales. As in his Tokaido prints, however Hiroshige imbued these modern views with a sense of a specific contemporary time and place often employing a more western perspective and showing modern day viewers inhabiting the scene.
Country	Japan
Historical Period	Japan - Edo-Tokugawa 1615 - 1868
Date of Content	1850s
Artist/Creator	Utagawa Hiroshige
Photographer/Recorder	Lewis, Frank C.
IDEAS Topic	Arts Arts-Prints Daily Life
Language	Japanese
Work of Art, Present Location	The Wriston Art Gallery. Lawrence University
Type	still image
Format	image/jpeg
Date Photographed/Recorded	1/1/2007
Permissions	Materials may be used for educational, non-commercial purposes only. Acknowledgement to be given to the ASIANetwork-Luce Asian Art in the Undergraduate Curriculum Project and to the college from whose collection the work comes. The individual college retains copyright to the work.
IDEAS Collection	ASIANetwork-Luce Asian Art in the Undergraduate Curriculum Project
Institution Name	Lawrence University
IDEAS Identifier	soclaa001923
Collection Editor	Kucera, Karil

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