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Evening Snow at Asuka Hill, from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo

Utagawa Hiroshige

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image depicts a snowy hillside scene. The hill is covered in snow and dotted with trees, some bare and some with leaves. A horse and a person are in the foreground, with the horse wearing a saddle and a load on its back. The person is holding an umbrella. There are several other people in the scene, some with umbrellas. In the background, there are buildings and more trees. The sky is dark gray and snowy. The image has a gray border around it, and there are Japanese characters written vertically on the left and right sides. The characters are also written in the top center. There is a red seal in the bottom-right corner.

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900 × 582 px
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