Fukuroi: Famous Totomi Kites (Fukuroi, meibutsu Ensu tako) from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido
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Object Details
- Artist
- Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Women working in the rice paddles stop and admire the kites flying in the air. These kites, flown by playful children in the background, are somewhat similar to the original kites that were flown years ago. During the mid-eighteenth century, kites carried samurai who flew over buildings to spy on the enemy.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Robert H. Patterson
- 1855
- Accession Number
- 1941-31-224
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Type
- Medium
- Woodblock print in colored ink on paper
- made in
- Japan
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- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1941-31-224
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4b079390e-6836-44e7-82de-b43d0e58e097
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