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Shono - from the Tokaido (Yuyudo)

Size: 25.5cm by 39.0cm (10.04 in by 15.35 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Ando Hiroshige

Era: Late Showa | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 9,000$ 62.00£ 46.75€ 54.50 [Item has been sold]

Description: This is one of the most famous works in Hiroshige’s Tokaido series. The subtitle shown in the vermilion gourd mark is 'Haku-u' white rain, meaning a sudden shower in summer.

With the strong shower rain creating mist; the bamboo swaying in the strong wind are depicted in different shades of gray - as they get farther, their shapes become more subtle in the fog.

Local men are running with their bodies wrapped by straw mats, the palanquin cover flutters in the blowing wind, and the traveler seen on the far right puts up a ban-gasa, a coated oilpaper umbrella. Hiroshige drew the publisher’s name (Takenouchi) and 53-stations (the title of this series) on the surface of the umbrella.

Hiroshige succeeded in skillfully and attractively depicting people's flustered activity during a sudden rain shower.

This version is a post-war reproduction by the Yuyudo Company.

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