The rounded stone bridge in this winter landscape was known as the ‘Drum Bridge at Meguro’, because of its shape. It was close to a temple that was a popular destination for visitors around New Year’s Day. Perhaps this is Hiroshige’s reason for showing it in the snow.
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Artist/maker
Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer) -
Associated people
Uoya Eikichi (active mid-19th century) (publisher) -
Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EAX.4368
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Catalogue text
A particularly successful print of a lonely snow scene, the areas of the snow on the branches and elsewhere simply left in the white, as would have been done by a contemporary Shijo-school painter.
In: Impey, Oliver, Hiroshige's Views of Tokyo: A Selection from the Woodblock-Print Series ‘One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo’ by Ando Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1993)
Further reading
Impey, Oliver, Hiroshige's Views of Tokyo: A Selection from the Woodblock-Print Series ‘One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo’ by Ando Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1993), no. 19 on p. 11, illus. p. 30 pl. 19
Pollard, Clare, Mitsuko Ito Watanabe, Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2014), no. 38, illus. p. 123
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