Eight Views of Kanazawa at Night
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858) · 1857 · Triptych of color woodblock prints
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Eight Views of Kanazawa at Night is a CC0 illustration by Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858), dated 1857. Triptych of color woodblock prints. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Eight Views of Kanazawa at Night” (1857) 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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