Hiroshige — Famous Restaurants of Edo · Ogura-an at Koume...

歌川広重 — UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797–1858) Koume in Honjo: The Ogura-an Restaurant (本所小梅 小倉庵, Honjo Koume, Ogura-an) From: Famous Restaurants of Edo (江戸高名会亭尽, Edo kōmei kaitei zukushi) Technique: Woodblock print (mokuhanga), polychrome (nishiki-e) on Japanese washi Date: c. 1838–1840 (Tenpō 9–11) Publisher: Fujiokaya Hikotarō (藤岡屋彦太郎, Fujihiko), seal 藤彦 Censor: Kiwame (極) seal Signature: Hiroshige ga (広重画), with Ichiryūsai (一立斎) seal Format: Ōban yoko-e (approx. 24 × 36 cm / 9.5 × 14 in.) CONDITION The colours are fairly well preserved and the impression reads well. There are some remnants of toned backing paper on the verso and a minor centre fold. The paper is firm and supple. Good overall. The Place — Dining by the Water in Honjo Koume was a quiet district in Honjo, on the east bank of the Sumida River, outside the crowded centre of Edo. Ogura-an was one of its well-known restaurants, a place townspeople reached for an outing away from the city. The fan-shaped cartouche carries a comic verse (kyōku) by a poet named Ōgimatsu. It plays on the restaurant's popularity: drinkers and non-drinkers alike, a hundred people come to Ogura-an to enjoy the cool. The Series — Edo's Celebrated Restaurants Hiroshige designed this series of about thirty sheets for the publisher Fujiokaya Hikotarō in the late Tenpō era. Each sheet pairs a famous Edo restaurant with its surroundings, so that the viewer can recognise both the establishment and the landmark beside it. Each design also carries a kyōka or kyōku poem in a decorative cartouche. The series was likely sponsored by poetry circles who met at these restaurants. It records the dining culture of Edo's merchant class just before the Tenpō Reforms of 1841–1843 restricted luxury and entertainment. It is one of Hiroshige's most attractive groups of Edo views from his mature period. Examples of this sheet are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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