Ryogoku Bridge and the Great Riverbank (Ryogokubashi Okawabata), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1856 · Color woodblock print; oban
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About this picture
Ryogoku Bridge and the Great Riverbank (Ryogokubashi Okawabata), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)" is a public-domain illustration by Utagawa Hiroshige, dated 1856. Color woodblock print; oban. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Ryogoku Bridge and the Great Riverbank (Ryogokubashi Okawabata), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"” (1856) is one of Hiroshige’s travel or weather prints. Rain, snow, and dusk are usually the subject, as much as the place.
About the artist
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was a Japanese printmaker of travel and weather. The stations of the Tōkaidō and his views of Edo show rain, snow, and dusk in flat, clear color.
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