{"product_id":"utagawa-hiroshige-the-kawachir-restaurant-shitaya-hirokji-shitaya-hirokji-kawachir-from-the-series-ca-183840-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","title":"Utagawa Hiroshige - The Kawachirō Restaurant, Shitaya Hirokōji (Shitaya Hirokōji, Kawachirō), from the series - ca. 1838–40 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal","description":"\u003ch1\u003eUtagawa Hiroshige - The Kawachirō Restaurant, Shitaya Hirokōji (Shitaya Hirokōji, Kawachirō), from the series - ca. 1838–40 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige, made around 1838–40, captures a busy evening at the Kawachirō restaurant in Shitaya Hirokōji, Edo, where a kneeling attendant serves sashimi to the guests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eVisual Elements \u0026amp; Composition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe palette is traditional Japanese: pale cream ground, jade green, sky blue, charcoal and vermilion accents. The scene is layered into a horizontal panel, with a fan-shaped cartouche and a vertical sign panel carrying the inscriptions \u003cem\u003e江戸名会亭尽\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e東都\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e酒宴之図\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e下谷\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e小路\u003c\/em\u003e. Figures fill the room: a woman plays the shamisen, another dances with a fan, two men drink sake at a low table, and the attendant kneels with the serving tray. The eye moves from the sign panels across the room to the central act of service.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMeaning \u0026amp; Symbolism\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe print belongs to \u003cem\u003eA Collection of Famous Restaurants of Edo (Edo Kōmei Kaitei Zukushi), a series that recorded the city's celebrated eateries for its own audience. Its subject is daily social life: music, dance, drink and food arranged around a single moment of hospitality. Hiroshige worked in the Ukiyo-e tradition of the Edo period, and the piece offers a documented window into the culinary and social customs of nineteenth-century Tokyo.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\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 composition keeps its own edges: the cartouche, the sign panel and the figures become the shape of the object itself rather than sitting inside a border. Its small scale suits the detail of a crowded interior, letting collectors read the sign calligraphy and the serving scene up close, the way a viewer would have leaned in to a restaurant print in its own time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"The Sticker Space","offers":[{"title":"2\" × 2\" \/ White","offer_id":48289739440346,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-2X2-890","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2\" × 2\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48289739407578,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-2X2-889","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3\" × 3\" \/ White","offer_id":48289739505882,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-3X3-890","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3\" × 3\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48289739473114,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-3X3-889","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4\" × 4\" \/ White","offer_id":48289739571418,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-4X4-890","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4\" × 4\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48289739538650,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-4X4-889","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6\" × 6\" \/ White","offer_id":48289739636954,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-6X6-890","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6\" × 6\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48289739604186,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-6X6-889","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0493\/3949\/8646\/files\/utagawa-hiroshige-the-kawachir-restaurant-shitaya-hirokji-shitaya-hirokji-kawachir-from-the-series-ca-183840-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal-TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-2X2-890-alt-3.webp?v=1785649549","url":"https:\/\/thestickerspace.com\/products\/utagawa-hiroshige-the-kawachir-restaurant-shitaya-hirokji-shitaya-hirokji-kawachir-from-the-series-ca-183840-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","provider":"The Sticker Space","version":"1.0","type":"link"}