Maker(s): | Utagawa Hiroshige
| Culture: | Japanese
| Title: | Hakone, Station 11, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Kyoka Ed.)
| Date Made: | late 1830's
| Type: | Print
| Materials: | woodcut printed in color on paper
| Place Made: | Japan
| Measurements: | sheet: 7 3/4 x 8 15/16 in.; 19.685 x 22.7013 cm
| Narrative Inscription: | Poem lower right of print by Fukien Mitsuharu, in Japanese "Kotowaza ni, kumo tomo ieru, hito nare ya, kakaru yamaji o, yoru mo koshi yuku." English translation "As the saying goes, speaking of clouds, it also happens to people -- just when one approaches a mountain path, evening falls." From "Hiroshige Prints and Drawings" by Matti Forrer.
| Accession Number: | SC 1976.54.436.11
| Credit Line: | Bequest of Henry L. Seaver
| Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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