It's Mike Ettner's Blog » Evening Snow at Asukayama http://www.mikeettner.com . . . and with no pretentious tagline! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:07:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 This morning’s Japanese snowfall http://www.mikeettner.com/02/2010/this-mornings-japanese-snowfall/ http://www.mikeettner.com/02/2010/this-mornings-japanese-snowfall/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:19:38 +0000 MikeEttner http://www.mikeettner.com/?p=2303 I awoke this morning to a Hiroshige-like scene of bare tree limbs filled with cottony snow:

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Below is Utagawa Hiroshige‘s “Evening Snow at Asukayama” (1837-38), a Japanese wookblock print from his series, “Eight Views from the Neighborhood of Edo”:

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It’s not clear whether the pack animal in the second picture came from an early Honda dealership.

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