Het dorp Yase
Sull’opera
Con le parole del museo — in olandese
Drie vrouwen, verschillende materialen en voorwerpen op het hoofd dragend, lopend tussen groene heuvels; op de achtergrond een man een paard voorttrekkend en de daken van het dorp Yase. Vrouwen uit Yase stonden erom bekend ladingen op hun hoofd te vervoeren.
Rijksmuseum
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- RP-P-1968-303
Nel frattempo, nella vita di Utagawa Hiroshige
Tutta la vita1809–1832
Post: dōshin
1832
Journey to Kyoto along the Tōkaidō
As a fire warden he was entitled to minor privileges reserved for low-ranking samurai, which is how he secured an invitation to join an official procession to Kyoto and travelled the Tōkaidō route linking the two capitals. He sketched the scenery along the way.
October 1838
Death of his first wife, who had helped fund his travels
Hiroshige's first wife, who had helped finance his trips to sketch travel locations, once selling some of her clothing and ornamental combs, died in October 1838.
after October 1838
Second marriage: Oyasu from Tōtōmi Province
After his first wife's death Hiroshige remarried to Oyasu, sixteen years his junior, the daughter of a farmer named Kaemon from Tōtōmi Province.
![Shinano Province, Moon Reflected in the Sarashina Paddy-fields, Mount Kyōdai (Shinano, Sarashina tagoto no tsuki, Kyōdaisan), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujūyoshū meisho zue), Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Edo period, 1853 (Kaei 6, 8th month)](https://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUAM:CARP04802_dynmc/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
