Eight Views of Ômi: #2 Night Rain at Karasaki / Andô Hiroshige
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- Accession Number
- 1948/1.135
- Title
- Eight Views of Ômi: #2 Night Rain at Karasaki
- Artist
- Andô Hiroshige
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1797-1858
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1834
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Kanto (region)
- Tokyo (metropolis)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Kanto (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Tokyo (metropolis)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Style/Group/Movement
- ukiyo e
- Inscription
- Signed: Hiroshige ga; Publisher's Seal: Eisendo; "Kiwane" seal in margin.
- Dimensions
- 22.9 cm x 34.8 cm (9 in. x 13 11/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- color print
- Secondary Object Classification
- Secondary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- Vertical lines stream downward across the print indicate torrents of rain. The dark color pallette and black strip across the top indicate that the image is set at night. A giant tree on an island looms over the image, surrounded by water. A poem in the upper left corner reads:
- "Elsewhere will they talk of the music of the evening breeze
- that has made the pine of Karasaki famous; the voice of the
- wind is not heard through the sound of the rain in the night."
- Subject Matter
- This print is one of eight that depicted the beauty of Ômi province, centered around Lake Biwa. Specifically, this print shows Karasaki, a small cape with a famous enormous pine tree, depicted here in the rain. The tree was said to be sacred and a small shrine is located on the island near the tree.
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- landscapes (environments)
- pine (tree)
- rain and rainfall
- ukiyo-e
- woodblock prints
- Secondary Keywords
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- visual arts
- artistic concepts
- asian
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- concepts in the arts
- earth sciences concepts
- east asian
- evergreens
- forms of expression
- japanese
- japanese printmaking styles
- japanese styles
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
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- physical sciences concepts
- plants
- precipitation
- prints
- prints by process
- prints by process or technique
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- scientific concepts
- settlements and landscapes
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- trees
- trees by leaf life
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- woody plants
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1323 x 871
- File Size
- 119 KB
- Record
- 1948/1.135
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"Eight Views of Ômi: #2 Night Rain at Karasaki; Andô Hiroshige." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1948-sl-1.135/1948_1.135.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
