Panoramic View of Arashiyama from the Triple Teahouse (Arashiyama Sangenjaya yori chôbô)

Hasegawa Sadanobu
Japanese
1809 – 1879

Panoramic View of Arashiyama from the Triple Teahouse (Arashiyama Sangenjaya yori chôbô)
from the series Famous Places in the Capital (Miyako meisho no uchi)
1870-71
woodblock print, ink and colour on paper
Place made
Osaka, Osaka prefecture, Japan
Medium
woodblock print, ink and colour on paper
Dimensions
15.3 x 22.3 cm (image)
Credit line
Gift of Edward Newman 2004
Accession number
20044G13
Signature and date
Signed u.r., pigment "貞信" translates to "Hasegawa Sadanobu". Not dated.
Provenance
Created by Hasegawa Sadanobu, Osaka, 1870-71; Edward Newman collection; gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2004.
Media category
Print
Collection area
Asian art - Japan

  • This elegant panorama of the Arashiyama area in west Kyoto depicts Spring as ferrymen, in their flat-bottomed boats and bamboo poles, make their way down the Hozu River.

    Hasegawa Sadanobu was a prolific artist and the first of six generations of Hasegawa artists which continues Konobu V (born 1946) based in Osaka. He was employed as an apprentice at a young age in a wholesale shop operated by the main branch of the Hasegawa family, which sold handmade paper (washi). When the shop closed, he began an artistic career, possibly studying with the Edo master Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865) and then moving to Osaka.  

    Russell Kelty, Curator of Asian Art