Eagle over Fukagawa Susaki and Jūmantsubo

The artwork

A huge eagle swoops down from the winter sky over the snow-covered plain, wings spread wide and talons open. You receive it printed on handmade Amalfi paper, in a handmade frame.

• The eagle's feathers, the falling snow and the deep blue of the sea.
• A powerful image that gives character to a study or a living room.
• A gift for anyone who loves nature and Japanese art.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), the best loved landscape artist of Japan, published it in 1857 in the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, the series devoted to the city we now call Tokyo. Fukagawa Susaki was a spit of land on the bay of Edo. Jūmantsubo, the marshy plain that stretches out below the eagle, took its name from its size: one hundred thousand tsubo, the old Japanese unit of area, that is more than thirty hectares.

Hiroshige brings the eagle so close to us that its wings run off the sheet, and the landscape becomes small and distant, with a snowy mountain on the horizon. Down below, on the water, floats a wooden bucket: the detail that recalls the presence of people in a deserted place. Our reproduction comes from the impression in the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

Above a desk or in an entrance hall it brings home the silence of the snow and the strength of a flight. A significant gift for anyone who loves Japan.

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