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Nissaka: The Night-Weeping Stone at Sayo no Nakayama, from the series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō

Utagawa Hiroshige

Cleveland Museum of Art

Woodblock print, rectangular, with a beige background. In the foreground, a large gray boulder sits on a sandy area with some sparse grass in front. To the left, two large tree trunks are visible. To the right, one large tree trunk with a leafless section. Five people are scattered throughout the scene. The person on the left wears a blue jacket and white pants, and the person carrying them wears a brown top and white pants. The person in the center wears gray and carries an orange umbrella. The three people on the right wear blue and white clothing and carry white objects on their heads. In the background, a mountain range is depicted beneath a blue sky with white clouds. Red vertical banners with black Japanese characters are placed throughout the scene. Black Japanese characters are written vertically on the left and scattered in the upper center. A red vertical banner with black Japanese characters is on the right edge.

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