Description
The foreground of this print shows travelers enjoying an evening meal at an inn, with the proprietor looking pleased at the gusto of her guests. In the background, another traveler is gratefully relaxing in a large wooden tub filled with hot natural spring water, having discarded his robe next to the bath. Shimosuwa is the only stop along the Kisokaidō—a road running from Nibonbashi in Edo (now Tokyo) to Sanjō Ōhashi in Kyoto—with a natural hot spring. The print series was a collaboration between Hiroshige and Keisai Eisen (1791–1848).
Provenance
(R. E. Lewis, Inc., California, sold to Kelvin and Eleanor Smith); The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899-1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art (?-1985); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1985-)
Accession Number
1985.322
Medium
Color woodblock print
Dimensions
23.1 x 25.4 cm (9 1/8 x 10 in.)
Classification
Credit Line
The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
