Night Rain at Karasaki
Torii Kiyomasu II Japanese
Not on view
This is an early example of the theme that Hiroshige turned into a masterpiece of landscape in the woodblock print medim. The print is akin to book illustration, which was the basic metier of ukiyo-e artists. A simple color scheme, limited to one or two colors, is characteristic of the primitive stage of woodblock printing in the early decades of the eighteenth century.
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