Kyoto (Kyō)
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- Victoria and Albert Museum
Description
In the foreground, a woman with an elaborate black coiffure and ornate hairpins stands in three-quarter view, wearing a floral kimono (purple and white blossoms with a black-and-white checked underlayer) with a black collar; she holds a brown pipe to her lips with one hand. Beside her a round-faced child in a red kimono with tasseled hair ornaments looks up at her, holding a small figurine. Behind them a panoramic landscape in blue and grey tones shows a river or bay before a low mountain dotted with red cartouches bearing place names, rendered in a pink-to-blue gradient sky; a fan-shaped cartouche at top left holds columns of Japanese text over a pale yellow ground, beside a black title cartouche reading "Tōkaidō Gojūsan Tsui" and "Kyō," identifying this as the Kyoto print from Utagawa Hiroshige's series.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Kyoto (Kyō) was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重).
Kyoto (Kyō) depicts landscapes.