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Driving Rain at Shōnofront

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Driving Rain at Shōno

  • Description

    This print, one of Hiroshige’s best-known works, depicts travellers caught in a summer rainstorm. The composition makes clever use of diagonals to emphasize the strength of the wind and driving rain, while the shading and tonal variation of the black ink in the background skilfully expresses the intensity of the storm. The print was enormously popular and was reissued countless times. Printers varied pigment colours and the degree of bokashi gradation to achieve different atmospheric effects.

  • Details

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    Series
    Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road
    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 › Shōno (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 40.7 x 55.7 cm (height x width)
    print 21.5 x 33.8 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.4293

  • Further reading

    Pollard, Clare, Mitsuko Ito, Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2014), no.8, p.52, illus. p.53

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    • currently in research collection

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