1933.4.110: Evening Snow at Mount Hira (Hira bosetsu), from the series Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei no uchi)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1933.4.110

People

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Japanese (1797 - 1858)
Published by Yamamotoya Heikichi 山本屋平吉

Title

Evening Snow at Mount Hira (Hira bosetsu), from the series Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei no uchi)

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

c. 1834-35

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Tōkyō

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Culture

Japanese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/208928

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions

Horizontal ōban: H. 23.3 cm x W. 35.8 cm (9 3/16 x 14 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: Hiroshige ga
• inscription: Poem: Yuki haruru/ Hira no takane no/ yūgure wa/ hana no sakari ni/ suguru koro kana
  When it clears after snowfall,/ the tops of Mount Hira/ at dusk surely surpass/ the beauty of cherry trees in bloom.
  (translation in Forrer, Hiroshige Prints and Drawings (1997), cat. no. 72)

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

1933.4.110

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Paintings from China, Korea, and Japan, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/25/2000 - 08/26/2001
• 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/12/2016 - 08/11/2016

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