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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.5031
People
Design after Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Japanese (1797 - 1858)
Title
Double-sided wooden printing block: on one side a facsimile of the keyblock of Hiroshige's Clearing Storm over Awazu (Awazu no seiran), from the series Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei), on the reverse an anonymous green colorblock of willow branches in a storm
Classification
Artists' Tools
Work Type
printing block
Date
1891
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Meiji era, 1868-1912
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/194056

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Carved cherry wood
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
26.9 x 39 x 1.2 cm (10 9/16 x 15 3/8 x 1/2 in.)

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
1933.4.5031
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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