Print & drawing
Evening Snow at Kambara (number sixteen of the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido)
Utagawa Hiroshige
1833
From the archive
The coastal town of Kambara rarely experiences snowfall. Illustrating falling snow is particularly suited to woodblock prints. The snowflakes are created by carving their shapes out of the woodblock. When the surface of the block is inked and printed, the carved areas are represented by the unprinted white paper. This print may be the first by Hiroshige to depict falling snow.
- Associated place
- Japan
- Material & technique
- color woodblock print
The record behind the work
Place & date
The museum gives the cultural attribution “Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)”. The pin represents this broad cultural association, not a verified creation site or depicted location.
Source & reuse
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
Source ID: 152495
CC0 — image and metadata released under the Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access program. Published from the United States.
