The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake (Ōhashi Atake no yūdachi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts

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Part of a Sunday at the Met held in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art, on view May 26, 2012–January 13, 2013, this lecture features Haruo Shirane, the Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

Recorded September 30, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Richard and Geneva Hofheimer Memorial Fund.

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Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake (Ōhashi Atake no yūdachi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797–1858 Tokyo (Edo))

Period:: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date:: 1857
Culture:: Japan
Medium:: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions:: 13 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (34 x 24.1 cm)
Classification:: Prints
Credit Line:: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918
Accession Number:: JP643

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