Bitchu Province, Gokei

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Bitchu Province, Gokei

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

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Bitchū Province, Gōkei (Bitchū Gōkei), from the series Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty Odd Provinces (Rokujūyoshū Meisho Zue), from the series Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty Odd Provinces. The Gōkei area (豪渓, Gōkei) is a river valley formed by the Makidani River (a tributary of the Takahashi River) which stretched from the extreme northern part of Sōja to Kibichūō (formerly Kayō) in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The area is only about 600m long, but the area is filled with strange granite rock formations resulting from wind and rain erosion. The area has become a local attraction for those wanting to view the scenic beauty and the strange formations, leading to its listing in 1923 as a national scenic spot in Japan. Utagawa Hiroshige Japanese 1797 – 1858, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan’s Edo period (1603–1868). The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige’s choice of subject, though Hiroshige’s approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai’s bolder, more formal prints. Subtle use of color was essential in Hiroshige’s prints, often printed with multiple impressions in the same area and with extensive use of bokashi (color gradation), both of which were rather labor-intensive techniques.

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