Clamdigging at Shinagawa (Shinagawa shiohigari), Waterfall River at Oji (Oji Taki-no-kawa), and Suijin Wood and the Shrine at Massaki (Suijin mori Massaki yashiro), from Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho harimaze zue), is an Utagawa Hiroshige sheet in the harimaze format, in which multiple discrete scenes are arranged on a single sheet so that the purchaser could cut them apart for an album or paste them into a screen. The harimaze conceit gave Hiroshige an opportunity to combine three quite distinct Edo meisho in a single design: the broad tidal flats of Shinagawa Bay where Edoites went to dig clams at low spring tide, the shaded waterfall valley at Oji north of the city, and the riverside shrine at Massaki in the eastern suburbs. Each scene is treated with its own compositional logic, and the three together amount to a compact survey of how Edo extended itself outward into seasonal recreation and rural shrine pilgrimage. As an Edo ukiyo-e landscape print, the sheet demonstrates the harimaze designer's discipline: each panel must be self-contained and yet contribute to the visual rhythm of the whole. The Harvard Art Museums impression preserves clear divisions between panels and the careful color blocking that distinguishes good early states.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Clamdigging at Shinagawa (Shinagawa shiohigari), Waterfall River at Ōji (Ōji Taki-no-kawa), and Suijin Wood and the Shrine at Massaki (Suijin mori Massaki yashiro), from the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho harimaze zue) was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) in 20th century.
Clamdigging at Shinagawa (Shinagawa shiohigari), Waterfall River at Ōji (Ōji Taki-no-kawa), and Suijin Wood and the Shrine at Massaki (Suijin mori Massaki yashiro), from the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho harimaze zue) depicts landscapes, waterfalls, and autumn foliage.
