{"product_id":"utagawa-hiroshige-the-ishiyakushi-temple-at-ishiyakushi-1834-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","title":"Utagawa Hiroshige - The Ishiyakushi Temple at Ishiyakushi - 1834 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal","description":"\u003ch1\u003eUtagawa Hiroshige - The Ishiyakushi Temple at Ishiyakushi - 1834 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUtagawa Hiroshige's Ishiyakushi Temple at Ishiyakushi, printed as a woodblock around 1833–1834, turns a single temple station on the Tōkaidō road into a quiet scene of pilgrimage, travel and seasonal change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eVisual Elements \u0026amp; Composition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe design sits in a horizontal panel with a cut-corner frame, and the eye moves across it the way a traveller would move along a road. Cream paper and teal green lead the palette, with dark slate for the strongest lines, rose for the cherry blossoms, and ochre for the warmer earth tones of the fields. The fine linework of the woodblock keeps every figure distinct: farmers working in a rice field, a figure carrying a bundle, a rider on horseback on a path, and stacked hay in the fields. Calligraphic inscriptions run through the composition, reading 東海道 (Tōkaidō), 五十三次之内 (Fifty-three Stations, Within), 石薬師 (Ishiyakushi) and 廣重画 (painted by Hiroshige).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMeaning \u0026amp; Symbolism\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Tōkaidō was the main road linking Edo with Kyoto, and Hiroshige's series of fifty-three stations recorded the places travellers stopped along it. Ishiyakushi was one of those stops, and the temple stands for the spiritual pilgrimage that ran alongside commercial and official traffic. The cherry blossoms carry the Japanese awareness of transience, the idea that beauty is brief and worth noticing. Hiroshige belonged to the Ukiyo-e movement of Edo-period printmaking, which made landscapes of everyday travel available to ordinary buyers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eOn the Kiss-Cut Sticker\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA kiss-cut sticker is cut to its own outline, so the temple scene keeps the shape of its frame and nothing around it. Hiroshige's compositions depend on edges, where the road, the fields and the temple meet the paper, and the cut follows those edges. Placed on a laptop, journal or window, the print reads as a small window onto Edo-period travel, the kind of object a collector keeps close.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Sticker Space","offers":[{"title":"2\" × 2\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48289739997402,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-2X2-887","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2\" × 2\" \/ White","offer_id":48289740030170,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-2X2-888","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3\" × 3\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48289740062938,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-3X3-887","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3\" × 3\" \/ White","offer_id":48289740095706,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-3X3-888","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4\" × 4\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48289740128474,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-4X4-887","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4\" × 4\" \/ White","offer_id":48289740161242,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-4X4-888","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6\" × 6\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48289740194010,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-6X6-887","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6\" × 6\" \/ White","offer_id":48289740226778,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-6X6-888","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0493\/3949\/8646\/files\/utagawa-hiroshige-the-ishiyakushi-temple-at-ishiyakushi-1834-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal-TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-2X2-888-alt-3.webp?v=1785649577","url":"https:\/\/thestickerspace.com\/products\/utagawa-hiroshige-the-ishiyakushi-temple-at-ishiyakushi-1834-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","provider":"The Sticker Space","version":"1.0","type":"link"}