Fukuroi dechaya no zu (Outdoor Tea Stall at Fukuroi)
Utagawa (Andō) Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797 - 1858
1832-1834
Color woodblock print on Japanese paper
Impression: 9 × 14 in. (22.9 × 35.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of John C. Richardson, Class of 1941, in memory of his father, Edward C. Richardson, Class of 1905
PR.972.63.28
Portfolio / Series Title
Station 28 from Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi (Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido) (Hōeidō edition)
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Label
Utagawa Hiroshige provides a glimpse of 19th-century Japanese life in this portrayal of four travelers at a rest stop on the Tōkaidō road. As a station along the 500-kilometer journey, the tea stall highlights the cultural importance of the beverage for both individual comfort and social gathering in Japanese tradition. Hiroshige enhances the tranquility of the scene through the landscape of Fukuroi in the background, dotted with sprouting vegetation before a fading horizon.
In the tea stall itself, the relaxed posture of the seated man reinforces the image’s sense of calmness. As a tea drinker rests, another man carries the group’s luggage while two servers tend to the kettle attached to the tree, indicating the social hierarchy that persists amongst the travelers.
From the 2024 exhibition A Space for Dialogue 118, Coffee and Tea in Art: A Brew of Cultural Symbolism, Solace, and Introspection, curated by Jeffrey Liu '24, Class of 1954 Intern
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 118, Coffee and Tea in Art: A Brew of Cultural Symbolism, Solace, and Introspection, Jeffrey Liu '24, Class of 1954 Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 11 - July 7, 2024
Munakata at Dartmouth, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-March 26, 2019.
Utagawa Hiroshige: The Great Tokaido, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 14, 1993, no. 28.
Published References
Hokusai and Hiroshige: Great Japanese Prints from the James A. Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts. (San Francisco: The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts and University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1998)
Provenance
Probably collected by Edward Curtis Richardson (1881-1968), in Japan, 1920s; to his son, John Curtis Richardson (1919-2003), South Berwick, Maine, about 1968; given to present collection, 1972.
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