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Akashi by Utagawa Kunisada — VisualArtsDB

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Akashi

Akashi

Utagawa Kunisada

1853

Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 14 3/16 × 29 3/16 in. (36.1 × 74.2 cm) (vertical ōban triptych)
Genre: Print
Museum: Minneapolis Institute of Art

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Two women on a balcony espy Mitsuuji walking through the reeds at Akashi Bay. Hiroshige later reused his landscape design for a triptych showing Kanazawa Bay in his Eight Views of Kanazawa Bay in Moonlight (Buyō Kanazawa hasshō yakei) from 1857.

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