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Category: Asia

Hiroshige’s Sudden Shower at Ohashi

  • Author By Julia Zacher '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Asia, Mead Art Museum, Print, Rain, Weather and People, Weather and the Built Environment
Woodblock print of a stormy, rainy scene. Travelers walk over a bridge and try to avoid the rain falling.

Hiroshige’s View of Yedo

  • Author By Olivia Stewart '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Asia, Mead Art Museum, Print, Snow, Weather and People, Weather and the Built Environment
Woodblock print of a snowy canal scene in Edo, with figures in traditional clothing standing on a dock as a small boat approaches through falling snow.

Kobayashi Kiyochika’s Outbreak of Fire

  • Author By Braden Poon '27
  • Categories: 19th Century, Asia, Mead Art Museum, Print, Weather and Destruction, Weather and the Built Environment, Wind
Orange flames dominate the composition, driven rightward by wind. People flee on the right side of the canal. One of the unburned homes on the right has people on their roof observing.

Satō Shintarō’s Shinkoiwa, Katsushika-ku (Snow)

  • Author By Harrison Lundy '25
  • Categories: 21st Century, Asia, Climate, Mead Art Museum, Photograph, Snow, Weather and Culture, Weather and the Built Environment
Dense three and four-story white and yellow buildings fill most of the image in an incongruous pattern, with snow-covered roofs. In the background, several bridges cross a river, and three skyscrapers dot the far skyline under a dark night sky.

Hiroshige’s Print of Kambara in the Snow

  • Author By Peter Kliziwecz '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Asia, Mead Art Museum, Print, Snow, Weather and People, Weather and the Built Environment
A snowy nighttime scene. The foreground features one figure resting while two figures trudge through the snow.

Kokan Bannai’s Nihonbashi Bridge in Snow

  • Author By Sydney Kang '25
  • Categories: 20th Century, Asia, Mead Art Museum, Print, Snow, Weather and the Built Environment
A landscape of a snowy wooden bridge. Vehicles cross it in view of boats and city buildings.

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