Ōhashi Bridge, Sudden Shower at Atake, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)

9th month, 1857

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print

Dimensions

sheet: 14 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (35.9 × 24.1 cm)

Credit Line

Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore

Accession Number

1950.441

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York, to 1950; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Dr. Eric Zafran and James H. Rubin, Monet's Water Lilies: An Artist's Obsession, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2011), 17, fig. 8
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Publisher's seal mark: Shitaya Uoei 下谷魚栄 (rectangular, relief, lower left margin)\r\nCensor's seal marks: Mi ku 巳九 (9th month 1857, year of the snake) (oval, relief, upper right margin) & Aratame 改 (round, relief, upper right margin)\r\n

Inscriptions

Meisho Edo hyakkei: Ōhashi, Atake no yūdachi 名所江戸百景 大はし阿多けの夕立 (upper right)

Signed

“Hiroshige ga” (“painted by Hiroshige”) 廣重画 (lower left)

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