Spread Twenty from Volume Seven of People of Japan in Light Verse (Kyōka)
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858) · 1857 · Woodblock-printed book; ink and color on paper
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Spread Twenty from Volume Seven of People of Japan in Light Verse (Kyōka) is a CC0 drawing by Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858), dated 1857. Woodblock-printed book; ink and color on paper. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Spread Twenty from Volume Seven of People of Japan in Light Verse (Kyōka)” (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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