Bikuni Bridge in Snow

The artwork

A huge sign fills half the picture, snow falls on the whitened street, and further on a man loaded with boxes heads for the bridge. You receive it printed on handmade Amalfi paper, in a handmade frame.

• The white of the snow, the blue of the sky and the bold black of the characters.
• A graphic, modern image, which gives character to an entrance hall or a kitchen.
• A curious gift for anyone who loves food, winter and Japan.

It belongs to the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, the series that Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), the best loved landscape artist of Japan, published between 1856 and 1858; Edo was the name of Tokyo until 1868. Here Hiroshige places us between two eating places, at the foot of a bridge.

On the right is a stall selling roasted sweet potatoes, and its lantern promises, with a pun, that they are «tastier than chestnuts». On the left the big sign reads «mountain whale»: it was the joking name for the meat of wild animals. In these shops, which people called «hairy monster shops», you could eat boar and deer, but also bear, monkey or badger, because the people of Edo believed that this meat gave strength. Our reproduction comes from the impression in the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

In an entrance hall or a kitchen it is a picture that makes you smile and wonder. An original gift for anyone who loves Japan and its traditions.

Unique quality material

Print on handmade Amalfi paper
Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in)
With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in)
Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges
Frame: dark brown with gold fillet, handmade, with glass