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 almost entirely imaginary; it rarely snows in the Kanbara area, in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture.

Evening Snow at Kanbara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō", Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797–1858 Tokyo (Edo)), Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, Japan

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