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Tora's Rain at Ōisofront

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Tora's Rain at Ōiso

  • Description

    The title of this print refers to a twelfth-century courtesan Tora Gozen. She was the mistress of Soga no Jūrō, the elder of two brothers who killed the lord Kudo in 1192 to avenge the death of their father. According to legend, when Jūrō successfully avenged his father’s death, Tora Gozen wept and her tears were transformed into rain, known as ‘Tora’s Rain’. Appropriately, the travellers here approaching the seaside station of Ōiso are caught in a heavy downpour.

  • Details

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    Series
    Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
    Associated place
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of creation)
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of publication)
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Tōkaidō road › Ōiso (subject)
    Date
    published 1833 - 1834
    Artist/maker
    Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
    Associated people
    Hoeido (active early 18th century - late 19th century) (publisher)
    Takenouchi Magohachi (active c. 1833 - 1850) (publisher)
    Material and technique
    woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
    Dimensions
    mount 40.6 x 55.7 cm (height x width)
    print 24.1 x 36.6 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed › relief print › woodcut › colour woodcut
    Object type index
    visual representation › print
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
    Accession no.
    EAX.4686

  • Further reading

    Pollard, Clare, Mitsuko Ito, Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2014), no.2, p.40, illus. p.40

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Location

    • currently in research collection

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