Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)
- Date:
- n.d.
- Medium:
- Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
- Format:
From Hiroshige's Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (1853–56), noted for dramatic bird's-eye compositions and extensive bokashi sky gradations. A complete set of 69 prints holds the artist record at $2,412,320 (EUR 2,116,500) at Sotheby's Paris 2025, ex-Frank Lloyd Wright collection.
A section of a harimaze sheet from the "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces," this print isolates a tea kettle rendered in the ishizuri-e technique that simulates rubbed stone impressions. The mundane domestic object takes on an austere dignity in monochrome, its form simplified to bold outlines. Such still-life vignettes were interspersed with landscape subjects across the harimaze sheet.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami) was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) in n.d..
Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami) depicts landscapes and food & drink.
