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Maker(s):Hiroshige
Culture:Japanese
Title:Evening Snow at Mount Hira, No. 2 from the series Eight Views of Lake Biwa
Date Made:mid 1830's
Type:Print
Materials:woodcut printed in color on paper
Place Made:Japan
Measurements:sheet: 9 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.; 24.13 x 36.83 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Japanese poem upper left of image. English translation by Mr. Binyon from the British Museum catalogue, "He who would see the beauty of the evening on the peaks of Hira must behold it after the snows have fallen, and before the flowers are fully blown."
Accession Number:  SC 1968.408
Credit Line:The Margaret Rankin Barker - Isaac Ogden Rankin Collection. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Barker (Margaret Clark Rankin, class of 1908)
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
Snow covered village next to a lake; dark sky; Mount Hira in background; bamboo thickets next to village; few travelers in bottom left; poem in upper right next to title of print

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