Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts

November 26, 2011

Utagawa Hiroshige's "Night Snow at Kambara"

Nationality: Japanese
Born-Died: 1797-1854

Creation Date: 1834
Media: Woodblock print (ink on paper)

From the series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido.


August 22, 2011

Hiroshige's "Clear Weather After Snow at Kameyama"

Nationality: Japanese
Born/Died: 1797-1858

Media: Woodblock print on paper

January 30, 2011

Hiroshige's "Dyers' Quarter, Kanda"



After about five minutes of research, I learned that this image depicts the cloth hanging out to dry at a shop where it has been dyed. While this is very interesting, I loved it before knowing that.