Evening Snow at Kanbara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō"
Utagawa Hiroshige Japanese
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Deep snow covers the slope of Kanbara in the evening. Fresh flakes falling on the houses, trees, and mountains create a quiet that is broken only by the implied crunch of travelers' footsteps in the snow. This scene is imaginary because records indicate that Hiroshige traveled through Kanbara in the summertime, and such heavy snowfall would be unusual for this area of Japan.
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