1933.4.5031: Double-sided wooden printing block: on one side a facsimile of the keyblock of Hiroshige's Clearing Storm over Awazu (Awazu no seiran), from the series Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei), on the reverse an anonymous green colorblock of willow branches in a storm
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.5031
- People
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Design after Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Japanese (1797 - 1858)
- Title
- Double-sided wooden printing block: on one side a facsimile of the keyblock of Hiroshige's Clearing Storm over Awazu (Awazu no seiran), from the series Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei), on the reverse an anonymous green colorblock of willow branches in a storm
- Classification
- Artists' Tools
- Work Type
- printing block
- Date
- 1891
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Meiji era, 1868-1912
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/194056
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Carved cherry wood
- Technique
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 26.9 x 39 x 1.2 cm (10 9/16 x 15 3/8 x 1/2 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
- Accession Year
- 1933
- Object Number
- 1933.4.5031
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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