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Utagawa Hiroshige

Fukagawa Susaki and Jumantsubo (Fukagawa Susaki Jumantsubo), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

1857
Color woodblock print; oban
33.3 × 22 cm (13.1 × 8.7 in)

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This design of a golden eagle about to swoop down on its prey is one of the most popular in the series. Hiroshige depicted the bird up close, with its wings spanning the composition. Below, we have a bird’s-eye view of snow-covered Edo Bay (now Tokyo Bay), the body of water next to the capital. The artist and 19th-century viewers could only imagine such an aerial view.

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