This print depicts a wintry rural scene on the outskirts of Hamamatsu station. The village and Hamamatsu Castle are visible in the distance. Porters warm themselves by a bonfire while another traveller looks on, pipe in hand, and a peasant woman walks past carrying a child on her back. Bokashi colour gradation is skilfully used to depict the smoke from the bonfire.
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Artist/maker
Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer) -
Associated people
Takenouchi Magohachi (active c. 1832 - 1840) (publisher)Enomotoya Kichibei (1786-1844) (publisher) -
Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EAX.4281
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Further reading
Pollard, Clare, Mitsuko Ito Watanabe, Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2014), fig. 29 p. 36
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