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Plum Estate, Kameido (Kameido Umeyashiki), No. 30 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Utagawa Hiroshige

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Hiroshige brings us face to face with the celebrated "Sleeping Dragon Plum" of Kameido. This tree, the most famous in Edo, was known for the purity of its double blossoms, which, according to one Edo guidebook, were "so white when full in bloom as to drive off the darkness." We are so close that we can almost smell the tree's powerful fragrance, reputed to have lured the shogun Yoshimune as he passed nearby in the early eighteenth century.

Caption

Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858). Plum Estate, Kameido (Kameido Umeyashiki), No. 30 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 11th month of 1857. Woodblock print, Sheet: 14 3/16 x 9 1/4 in. (36 x 23.5 cm) Image: 13 3/8 x 8 7/8 in. (34 x 22.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Anna Ferris, 30.1478.30. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Asian Art

Title

Plum Estate, Kameido (Kameido Umeyashiki), No. 30 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Date

11th month of 1857

Period

Edo Period, Ansei Era

Geography

Place made: Japan

Medium

Woodblock print

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Sheet: 14 3/16 x 9 1/4 in. (36 x 23.5 cm) Image: 13 3/8 x 8 7/8 in. (34 x 22.6 cm)

Signatures

Hiroshige-ga

Markings

No publisher's seal visible, probably lost when left edge was trimmed.

Credit Line

Gift of Anna Ferris

Accession Number

30.1478.30

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Artists and makers

Utagawa Hiroshige

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