Sudden Shower over Shin Ohashi Bridge and Atake (Ohashi Atake no yudachi), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

Art Institute of Chicago

Sudden Shower over Shin Ohashi Bridge and Atake (Ohashi Atake no yudachi), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重

Date
1857
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Culture
Japan
Department
Arts of Asia
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

This image of travelers caught in a sudden downpour on a bridge is instantly recognizable to fans of Utagawa Hiroshige. To create the dark, rolling clouds at the top of the composition, a printer applied the gradation by hand in a scalloped shape rather than the usual straight line.

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