Posts Tagged ‘Hiroshige’

This morning’s Japanese snowfall

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

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.