Cleveland Museum of Art
Night Rain at the Azuma Shrine (from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo)
Utagawa HiroshigeLinkedCulture matchlcp-058622c2ea8f
- Date
- mid-1830s
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 121618
What the image shows
A rainy landscape with a torii gate and a figure walking under an umbrella.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Here Hiroshige reinterprets the traditional Chinese poetic and artistic theme of Eight Views of Xiaoxiang , a scenic region in southeast China . Inspired by “rain at night on the Xiaoxiang,” Hiroshige instead places travelers near Azuma Jinja Shrine in an Edo (present-day Tokyo) suburb. Synthetic blue pigment, imported from the West and wildly popular in the early 1800s, adds vibrancy to the muted landscape. Thin, ruler-straight diagonal lines of white ink evoke the driving rain.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Henry S. Upson
- Provenance
- ?–1942: Mrs. Henry S. [Mary Louisa Southworth] Upson [1859–1944], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1942–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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