Sudden Shower over Shin Ohashi Bridge and Atake (Ohashi Atake no yudachi), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858)
1857
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 33.4 × 21.8 cm (13 1/4 × 8 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This image of travelers caught in a sudden downpour on a bridge is instantly recognizable to fans of Utagawa Hiroshige. To create the dark, rolling clouds at the top of the composition, a printer applied the gradation by hand in a scalloped shape rather than the usual straight line.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
