The Whirlpools of Awa
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858) · 1857 · Triptych of color woodblock prints
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The Whirlpools of Awa 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.
“The Whirlpools of Awa” (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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