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Picture of Twilight at the Drum Bridge in Meguro, from the series 100 Views of Famous Places in Edo

Utagawa Hiroshige

Cleveland Museum of Art

Woodblock print depicts a snowy scene. The image shows a bridge over a river; the bridge is at the bottom-left. Three people walk on the bridge and one on the shore; they carry umbrellas. The bridge has a railing and appears to be made of stone. The river runs from the bottom-center to the right-center. The riverbank on the right and in the background is covered with snow. There are several snow-covered trees on both sides of the river. The sky is dark blue with snowflakes falling. The print has a red vertical rectangle on the right with Japanese text and another red rectangle at the top-right with Japanese text. The background behind the print is white.

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587 × 900 px
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