Gathering Shellfish at Low Tide at Susaki, from the series Famous Places in Edo, mid-1830s. Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858)

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Gathering Shellfish at Low Tide at Susaki, from the series Famous Places in Edo, mid-1830s. Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858)

Gathering Shellfish at Low Tide at Susaki, from the series Famous Places in Edo, mid-1830s. Susaki, a spit of land along Edo Bay, was known for excellent shellfish harvests during low tide in the spring. Hiroshige designed this print so that the viewer seems to be floating in the bay on board a ship, whose mast and rigging span the left foreground. Instead of depicting the lives or monuments of wealthy elites, this landscape focuses on the working men, women, and children wading into shallow water to fill their baskets with shellfish. Susaki Shrine, dedicated to Benten, the goddess of water, is shown only as buildings amid pine trees on the right, while the leisure class enjoying the sea breezes from a pavilion are reduced to small figures in the background

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1615 1868 1797 1858 Utagawa Hiroshige Japanese

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