Sundai, Edo Explained

Sundai, Edo
Image Upright:	1.5
Other Language 1:	Japanese
Other Title 1:	Tōto Sundai (東都駿台)
Artist:	Hokusai
Year:	c. 1830–32
Medium:	Woodblock print
Height Metric:	24.8
Width Metric:	36.5
Metric Unit:	cm
Website:	Sundai, Edo

Sundai, Edo is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai. It was produced as the fifth print in the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji from c. 1830 to 1832 in the late Edo period.^[1]

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Description

This print is a yoko-e, that is, a landscape format produced to the ōban size, about 25 cm high by 37 cm wide.^[2]

It is a polychrome woodblock print, composed of ink and color on paper.

The composition is made up of travelers and workers on a road, with a large pine tree on the left side, the corner of a house on the right, and Mount Fuji in the distance.^[3]

References

Web site: Surugadai in Edo (Tōto Sundai), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2017-11-19.
Web site: Katsushika Hokusai: The Great Wave at Kanagawa . 2010-07-07 . Metropolitan Museum of Art . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20100614065800/http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/jp1847 . 2010-06-14 .
Web site: Toto Sundai 東都駿ダイ (Surugadai in Edo) / Fugaku sanjurokkei 冨嶽三十六景 (Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji). The British Museum. 19 November 2017.