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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
Museum record:
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