Porcelain Dish with Design of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
Speaker: Dr. Cortney Chaffin Kim
A game board on a dish
Explore a 19th-century blue-and-white porcelain dish that connects to Japanese Edo-period game boards and woodblock prints by the famed printmaker Ando Hiroshige. This dish is on display at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C.
Dish with Design of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido, Edo period, 1840–50, porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear colorless glaze, Arita ware, Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita, Possibly Ohoyama kiln, H x Diam: 10.8 x 61.2 cm (4 1/4 x 24 1/8 in). National Museum of Asian Art. Photo: © Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank.
Video chapters
0:00 A banquet and an imaginary journey
0:38 A 19th-century porcelain dish
1:27 A journey along the Tōkaidō
2:22 Hiroshige’s Fifty-Three Stations of Tōkaidō
3:19 Picture double sixes (Snakes and Ladders)
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