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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) | Kameyama: Clear Weather after Snow (Kameyama, yukibare) | Edo period, 19th century

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)

Kameyama: Clear Weather after Snow (Kameyama, yukibare)

Edo period, 19th century


woodblock print, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi), signed Hiroshige ga, censor's seal kiwame (partially trimmed), published by Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeido), circa 1833-34


Horizontal oban: 24.9 x 36.2 cm., 9¾ x 14¼ in.

A daimyo procession makes its way up a steep snow-covered path to the 16th century Kameyama castle at the upper right.


For another impression of the same print in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 34.277, go to: 

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/246259


For another in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET), accession number JP517, go to: 

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/60001070