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Evening Snow at Kambara (number sixteen of the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido)

1833

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重

(Japanese, 1797–1858)
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Medium
color woodblock print
Measurements
Sheet: 22.6 x 35.5 cm (8 7/8 x 14 in.)
Credit Line
The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.317
Public Domain
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Description

The coastal town of Kambara rarely experiences snowfall. Illustrating falling snow is particularly suited to woodblock prints. The snowflakes are created by carving their shapes out of the woodblock. When the surface of the block is inked and printed, the carved areas are represented by the unprinted white paper. This print may be the first by Hiroshige to depict falling snow.
A horizontally oriented print depicts three people in a snowy landscape with mountains on the left, toward which a row of houses extends. In color while the landscape is in black and white, a person wearing dark blue faces our left, a peach-pink umbrella closed over their head. Two other people walk the opposite direction, with light skin tones, wearing wide pointed hats and slumping forward in white, peach, and blue garments.

Evening Snow at Kambara (number sixteen of the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido)

1833

Utagawa Hiroshige

(Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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