Saka-No-Shita: Throw-Away-Brush Peak

Artist/Culture Utagawa Hiroshige I 歌川広重 (Japanese, 1797–1858)

Date1834

Mediumwoodblock print

Dimensions22.5 x 35.2 cm (8 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection

Terms

Japanese Print

Object number1901.1091

Label TextSakanoshita: Fudesute Mountain (Fudesutemine) from 53 Stations on the T kaid And Hiroshige 1797-1858 Multicolor woodblock print, ban Artist signature: Hiroshige ga Censor's seal: kiwame Publisher: Takemago, Tsuruki John Chandler Bancroft Collection 1901.1091 Travelers are looking at this strangely shaped mountain from a tea-house veranda. The mountain took its name from a story that the great painter Kan Motonobu (1476-1559) realized that painting the mountain was beyond his powers and threw away his brush (fudesute).

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