Three travellers trudge through deep snow by a mountain village at nightfall. The palette is sombre, with the clothes of the three figures the only touches of colour. Several factors indicate that this is a late impression: the lines of the woodblock have broken in places; the bokashi gradation is rather coarsely applied; and there are gaps between different colours in some places due to shrinkage of the colour blocks over time.
Details
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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.4841
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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. 21, p. 30
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