Tsūten-kyō Bridge, Tōfuku Temple, Kyoto (Kyōto Tōfukuji Tsūtenkyō bashi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei)
諸国名所百景 京都東福寺通天橋
- Date:
- 1859
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
Tsūten-kyō Bridge, Tōfuku Temple, Kyoto is one of the most celebrated Kyoto sheets in Hiroshige II's One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei), the series published in 1859 that re-formatted the meisho-e tradition for the post-Hiroshige I generation. Tōfukuji, a major Rinzai Zen temple in southeastern Kyoto, is famous for its wooden covered bridge Tsūten-kyō spanning a ravine planted with hundreds of maples that turn red and gold in autumn; the temple's autumn-leaf viewing (kōyō-gari) had been a famous Kyoto custom since the medieval period. Hiroshige II's composition uses the tall vertical ōban format and the close-up-of-foreground / long-view-behind device that Hiroshige I had codified in his Edo views, with the great wooden span of the bridge thrust toward the viewer and the autumn maples massing behind it. The Art Institute of Chicago's impression (1939.2191), part of the Bruce Goff Archive given by Shin'enkan, Inc., is one of the strong working impressions that have allowed Shokoku meisho hyakkei to enter American teaching collections in depth.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Tsūten-kyō Bridge, Tōfuku Temple, Kyoto (Kyōto Tōfukuji Tsūtenkyō bashi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei) (諸国名所百景 京都東福寺通天橋) was created by Utagawa Hiroshige II (二代目歌川広重) in 1859.
Yes — Tsūten-kyō Bridge, Tōfuku Temple, Kyoto (Kyōto Tōfukuji Tsūtenkyō bashi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei) is part of the One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces series by Utagawa Hiroshige II.
Tsūten-kyō Bridge, Tōfuku Temple, Kyoto (Kyōto Tōfukuji Tsūtenkyō bashi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei) depicts landscapes, bridges, and famous places (meisho-e).