Night Rain at the Azuma Shrine (from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo)

mid-1830s Sheet: 21.6 x 34.4 cm (8 1/2 x 13 9/16 in.) Source image
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Here Hiroshige reinterprets the traditional Chinese poetic and artistic theme of Eight Views of Xiaoxiang, a scenic region in southeast China. Inspired by “rain at night on the Xiaoxiang,” Hiroshige instead places travelers near Azuma Jinja Shrine in an Edo (present-day Tokyo)...

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