Night View of the Yamato Tea-house in Nawate Dori Seen from Shijo Bridge
- Date:
- 1836-1870
- Medium:
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Source:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
Description
This Metropolitan Museum of Art miniature print by Hasegawa Sadanobu I captures a nocturnal view of Kyoto's famous Yamato teahouse on Nawate-dori, the entertainment thoroughfare that runs north from Shijo Bridge along the eastern bank of the Kamo River. The composition belongs to a category of small-format prints — typically the size of a postcard — that Sadanobu I produced as souvenir and gift items aimed at travelers, festival-goers, and a broad popular market that valued portable images of celebrated locations. The night-scene treatment, with lighted lanterns and architectural silhouettes against a dark sky, demonstrates Sadanobu's command of the technical refinements of mid-nineteenth-century Osaka color printing — careful gradation, subtle bokashi (graded background), and balanced light-against-dark composition. The Met's holding, accessioned as JP1403, comes from the early-twentieth-century acquisition of Japanese prints by the museum, when miniature and standard formats alike entered Western collections through the same dealers and donors.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Night View of the Yamato Tea-house in Nawate Dori Seen from Shijo Bridge was created by Hasegawa Sadanobu I (長谷川貞信) in 1836-1870.
Night View of the Yamato Tea-house in Nawate Dori Seen from Shijo Bridge depicts landscapes and bridges.