Distant View of Mount Akiha, Kakegawa
Andō Hiroshige · 1833/1835 · color woodcut on Japanese paper
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About this picture
Distant View of Mount Akiha, Kakegawa is a public-domain illustration by Andō Hiroshige, dated 1833/1835. Color woodcut on Japanese paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Distant View of Mount Akiha, Kakegawa” (1833/1835) 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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