Fine Japanese Prints
Fine Japanese Prints
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) | Shono: Driving Rain (Shono, hakuu) | Edo period, 19th century
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December 16, 03:28 PM GMT
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3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Shono: Driving Rain (Shono, hakuu)
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi), signed Hiroshige ga (Pictured by Hiroshige), censor's seal kiwame (approved), published by Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeido), circa 1833-34
Horizontal oban: 34.3 x 22.9 cm., 13½ x 9 in.
Near the town of Shono in Ise province, a sudden downpour causes travellers along the road to scatter in haste to shelter. A man on the right carries an umbrella playfully inscribed with the publisher’s name Takenouchi, and a part of the series title, Fifty-three Stations (gojusan tsugi). Following in the footsteps of a man cloaked in straw, bearers of a small palanquin carry a passenger shielded from the heavy shower. The silhouette of a bamboo grove in the background can be seen curving leftwards under the pressure of wind and rain.
Other impressions of this famous design are in many museum collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The British Museum, London, go to:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/217497
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1937-0710-0-257