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Asakusa Rice Fields and Torinomachi Festival (Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi mode), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Asakusa Rice Fields and Torinomachi Festival (Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi mode), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)" by Utagawa Hiroshige
Asakusa Rice Fields and Torinomachi Festival (Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi mode), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)" by Utagawa Hiroshige, 25 cm × 36 cm
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

25 cm × 36 cm

About the size of an open laptop. You would need 5 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

This work 36 cm Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
36 cm
Width
25 cm
Medium
Color woodblock print; ōban
Kind
Print
Made in
Japan
Where the measurement comes from
Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it
35.9 × 24.8 cm (14 1/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
Credit
Gift of Chester W. Wright

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Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?
25 cm × 36 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made 1857. It is in the public domain, and The Art Institute of Chicago publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?
Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Art Institute of Chicago: Gift of Chester W. Wright.
How was it made?
Color woodblock print; ōban, made in Japan, Japanese (culture or style).
Who speaks for it?
Its record at The Art Institute of Chicago. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

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