Driving Rain at Shōno, from Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaidō
1833
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- 38 × 25.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-190174
Utagawa Hiroshige’s design for this print captures the atmospheric qualities of rain and its effects on two groups of travelers. Three printing blocks were required to produce the three shades of gray used to suggest distance in the thickets of bamboo in the background. The publisher’s name, “Takenouchi,” and part of the series title, Fifty-Three Stations, are written on one person’s umbrella. Hiroshige created many different print series on the Tokaidō, a road that ran from Kyoto to Edo (now Tokyo). Shōno was a minor way station along this largely coastal route.
Provenance
Wingate Todd, 1948.306
Registry history
- 1833 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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