Shōno: Driving Rain by Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1833–34, framed print

Shōno: Driving Rain

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1833–34

Japanese Prints

From the Hōeidō edition of Hiroshige's Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō. Porters carrying a palanquin and travelers under straw capes hurry up a slope at Shōno as a sudden shower sweeps across the hills. The bamboo grove behind them bends in layered gray silhouettes. This impression belongs to the Suntory Museum of Art.

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