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Tiger Rain at Ōiso Station

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Woodblock print of a rainy scene featuring a station. A sloped roofed building sits behind trees on right. People carry white umbrellas. A road runs from bottom to center-left with two stacked white barrels on it. Distant mountains on right. Water and trees on left. Pale yellow sky with rain falling in dark lines. Black and red Japanese writing appears on the top. Image is rectangular with decorative rounded corners.

Artwork Details

Date
ca. 1834
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
599 × 409 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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