Ōhashi Atake no yūdachi (Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ōhashi and Atake)

Description

Colour woodblock print, entitled Ōhashi Atake no yūdachi (Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ōhashi and Atake), from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo), depicting people walking over Ōhashi Bridge in a sudden downpour of rain: Japan, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Museum reference

A.1887.745.39.81

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Woodblock print

Production information

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797 - 1858, Artist
Japan, East Asia
Uoya Eikichi, Publisher

Date

1857

Materials

Paper

Associations

Depicted: Edo, Musashi province, Japan, East Asia

References

Jane Wilkinson and Nick Pearce, Harmony & Contrast: A Journey through East Asian Art (National Museums of Scotland, 1996), p.80