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Sumida River in the Snow, from the series "Famous Places in Edo in the Four Seasons"

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vertical rectangular image with a blue lower half and beige upper half. Snow falls across the entire image. A diagonal wooden bridge spans from the lower left corner to the bottom center. A man with a straw hat and a long haori walks on the bridge, looking down. The man is positioned on the left third of the bridge. The bridge has a fence on the right side. A large tree branch with bare leaves extends from the right side towards the upper left. Japanese text is written vertically along the left edge.

Artwork details

Date:
1834
Medium:
Woodblock print (tanzaku size); ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
220 × 624 px
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