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Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

1857

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重

(Japanese, 1797–1858)

Japan, Edo Period

(1615-1868)

Color woodblock print

Sheet: 35.3 x 23.2 cm (13 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.)

Gift from J. H. Wade 1921.318

Location

not on view

Description

Running through Edo, the Ohashi Bridge was one of 300 bridges that crossed the Sumida River. Published about a year before Hiroshige’s death, this print design illustrates the artist’s mastery of capturing atmospheric conditions. Figures scurry across the bridge amid slanting sheets of rain.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signature: Hiroshige ga Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Uoei, Shitaya) Censorship Seal: aratame

Provenance
?-1921
Carl William Schraubstadter [1862-1947], New York, NY
February 11, 1921
(American Art Association, February 11, 1921 sale, lot 664)
1921
(Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1921-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history

Japanese Prints from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 5-October 28, 1934).

The Art of Printmaking. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 17, 1959-January 2, 1960).

Japanese Woodblock Prints: Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 3-October 19, 1980).

Promenades, Pageants, Processions, and Pilgrimages. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 25, 1981-January 3, 1982).

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

Transformations in Japanese Printmaking. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 30, 1984).

The View from Afar: Whistler and the Japanese Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 9-October 16, 1988).

Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 12, 2004-April 10, 2005).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1921.318