1933.4.110: Evening Snow at Mount Hira (Hira bosetsu), from the series Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei no uchi)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.110
- People
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Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Japanese (1797 - 1858)
Published by Yamamotoya Heikichi 山本屋平吉
- Title
- Evening Snow at Mount Hira (Hira bosetsu), from the series Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei no uchi)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1834-35
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Tōkyō
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/208928
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Horizontal ōban: H. 23.3 cm x W. 35.8 cm (9 3/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Hiroshige ga
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inscription: Poem: Yuki haruru/ Hira no takane no/ yūgure wa/ hana no sakari ni/ suguru koro kana
When it clears after snowfall,/ the tops of Mount Hira/ at dusk surely surpass/ the beauty of cherry trees in bloom.
(translation in Forrer, Hiroshige Prints and Drawings (1997), cat. no. 72)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
- Accession Year
- 1933
- Object Number
- 1933.4.110
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Paintings from China, Korea, and Japan, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/25/2000 - 08/26/2001
- 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/12/2016 - 08/11/2016
Verification Level
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