A group of travellers – probably a daimyō procession – crosses a wooden bridge during a heavy downpour. Hiroshige has skilfully depicted the rain by using criss-cross diagonal lines in slightly different shades of grey, which make a striking contrast with the blue of the raging river. In earlier impressions, some of the lines were printed in white. The building just visible through the cryptomeria trees in the background is probably the Tamura Shrine.
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.4297
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Glossary of terms
daimyō
Further reading
Pollard, Clare, Mitsuko Ito Watanabe, Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2014), fig. 6 p.14
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