Evening Snow At Asakusa From The Series Eight Views Of Edo

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Evening Snow At Asakusa From The Series Eight Views Of Edo

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Utagawa Hiroshige

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Painting

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Evening Snow at Asakusa from the series Eight Views of Edo. The classical Chinese model of “eight views” was widely parodied by print designers during the Edo period. Traditionally associated with scenic beauty, later designs also depicted the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters and beautiful women. Evening Snow at Asakusa alludes to Evening Snow at Mt. Hira from the eight views of Omi. Hiroshige depicts three beauties holding umbrellas on a snowy night. The left two figures with their indigo-dyed, padded kimono have scarves covering their heads and tabi socks on their feet. The subdued costume distinguishes them from the more ostentatiously dressed courtesan on the right with bare feet. The two women are most likely wives of wealthy merchants. The background landscape includes the main hall and five-storied pagoda of Asakusa temple and the Azuma Bridge spanning the Sumida River. Utagawa Hiroshige Japanese 1797 – 1858, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan’s Edo period (1603–1868). The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige’s choice of subject, though Hiroshige’s approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai’s bolder, more formal prints. Subtle use of color was essential in Hiroshige’s prints, often printed with multiple impressions in the same area and with extensive use of bokashi (color gradation), both of which were rather labor-intensive techniques.

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