"The Armor-hanging Pine at Hakkeizaka" From 100 Views of Edo

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Item No: facjp00101
Title: "The Armor-hanging Pine at Hakkeizaka" From 100 Views of Edo
Media Type: Woodcuts
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

"The center of attraction is the grand but oddly shaped pine tree, the 'Armor-Hanging Pine' of the title. Legend has it that the warrior Minamoto Yoshiie stopped by here to rest on his way north to subjugate the Abe clan, and hung his armor on the tree. This would have made the treee about 800 years old at the time Hiroshige depicted it, but apparently its size was such as to justify the claim of great age (if not eight centuries). The Edo meisho zue claims it to have been 'six to seven jo [60-70 fet] in height, with a girth 'big enough to hide an ox'."

from "Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo", by Brooklyn Museum of Art, George Braziller, Inc. New York. Plate 26

https://catalog.freelibrary.org/Record/359102


Notes:

Late Printing. Possibly with some recarved blocks.


Bibliography:

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-armor-hanging-pine-at-hakkeizaka-hakkeizaka-yoroikakematsu-from-the-series-one-hundred-famous-views-of-edo-meisho-edo-hyakkei-533991

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/features/edo

https://catalog.freelibrary.org/Record/180238

https://catalog.freelibrary.org/Record/359102



Image Dimensions Width: 35.8 cm
Creator Name: Hiroshige, Utagawa, 1797-1858 - Artist

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