Japanese Print "Sado: Gold Mines" by Unknown
Artist:Unknown
Title:Sado: Gold Mines
Date:1853, 9th month in the year of the Ox
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Source:Worcester Art Museum
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Print no. 35 of the series: "Rokujuyoshu meisho zue" ("The sixty odd Provinces: Pictures of...") Province of Sado (an island in the Japan Sea): the mouths of the tunnels of the gold mine.--Gookin Sado Island, off the northwest coast of Japan in the Sea of Japan, was associated with goldmines in the publics' mind. Hiroshige depicts the entrance to the mine tunnels with their wooden scaffolding to support the roofs and a shinto offering above the center mine. Miners and the government overseer are the tiny figures in the foreground.--Swinton
![Japanese Print "Sado Province: The Goldmines (Sado, Kanayama), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)" by Utagawa Hiroshige, 歌川広重 (Utagawa Hiroshige I)](https://data.ukiyo-e.org/mfa/thumbs/sc208636.jpg "Sado Province: The Goldmines (Sado, Kanayama), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)")
![Japanese Print "Sado Province: The Goldmines (Sado, Kanayama), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)" by Utagawa Hiroshige, 歌川広重 (Utagawa Hiroshige I)](https://data.ukiyo-e.org/mfa/thumbs/sc230766.jpg "Sado Province: The Goldmines (Sado, Kanayama), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)")
![Japanese Print "Sado Province: The Goldmines (Sado, Kanayama), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)" by Utagawa Hiroshige, 歌川広重 (Utagawa Hiroshige I)](https://data.ukiyo-e.org/mfa/thumbs/sc130602.jpg "Sado Province: The Goldmines (Sado, Kanayama), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)")
![Japanese Print "Sado Province: The Goldmines (Sado, Kanayama), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)" by Utagawa Hiroshige, 歌川広重 (Utagawa Hiroshige I)](https://data.ukiyo-e.org/mfa/thumbs/sc135683.jpg "Sado Province: The Goldmines (Sado, Kanayama), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)")
