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Shower of Rain at Nihonbashi Bridge
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Details
- Series
- Famous Views of the Eastern Capital
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Mount Fuji (subject)
- Date
- 1832 - 1838
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
- Associated people
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Sanoya Kihei (active c. 1801 - 1878) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
- Dimensions
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mount 40.6 x 55.7 cm (height x width)
print 25.6 x 37.5 cm (height x width)
27 x 39.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
- Accession no.
- EAX.4834
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, Hiroshige's Views of Mount Fuji: A Selection of Woodblock Print Views of Mount Fuji, Including Examples from the Series 'The Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji', of 1858-9, by Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001), no. 15 on p. 12, illus. p. 28 pl. 15
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Hiroshige’s Views of Mount Fuji
All distances in Japan were and are measured from the bridge at Nihonbashi; thus it was the first in any Tokaido or Kisokaido series. Here the vertical lines, later to be imitated by Post-Impressionist painters, and the hunched miserable look of the pedestrians, emphasise the extent of the downpour. Hiroshige made several series of this title (Tōto Meisho); this is not the earliest.
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