Ferryboat, by Totoya Hokkei

An image of Ferryboat. Hokkei, Totoya (Japanese, 1780-1850). Surimono. Colour print from woodblocks with metallic pigments and blind embossing (karazuri). Poets: Rokujuan Fukumaro; Shuchodo, circa 1830. Ukiyo-e. Notes: The two poems in this print suggest that this rural scene of people travelling on a ferry is set along the Tone River which forms the Northern border of present-day Tokyo. The woman seated in the centre is wearing a white turban-like hood, a garment for a travelling woman. The mountain in the distance is Mt Tsukuba. It was affectionately called Tsukuba Fuji for its elegant shape, and its double peaks were nicknamed as Nantai-san (male body mountain) and Nyotaisan (female body mountain). The first poem reads: ‘The East wind blowing from Tsukuba has highly enhanced the fragrance of plum blossoms; and Mt Nantai naturally stands higher [than the female Nyotaisan].’

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Ferryboat. Hokkei, Totoya (Japanese, 1780-1850). Surimono. Colour print from woodblocks with metallic pigments and blind embossing (karazuri). Poets: Rokujuan Fukumaro; Shuchodo, circa 1830. Ukiyo-e. Notes: The two poems in this print suggest that this rural scene of people travelling on a ferry is set along the Tone River which forms the Northern border of present-day Tokyo. The woman seated in the centre is wearing a white turban-like hood, a garment for a travelling woman. The mountain in the distance is Mt Tsukuba. It was affectionately called Tsukuba Fuji for its elegant shape, and its double peaks were nicknamed as Nantai-san (male body mountain) and Nyotaisan (female body mountain). The first poem reads: ‘The East wind blowing from Tsukuba has highly enhanced the fragrance of plum blossoms; and Mt Nantai naturally stands higher [than the female Nyotaisan].’

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Accession Number: P.361-1937
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 939 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 885.35kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2018:10:24 16:20:26

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