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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858) Three figures trudge through falling snow in the village of
Kanbara yoru no yuki (Evening snow at Kanbara) Kanbara, Shizuoka Prefecture. In fact Hiroshige visited Kambara
during late summer or early autumn and therefore this scene is
Woodblock print, from the series Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi (Fifty-
imagined. Considered amongst his finest snowscenes, in the earliest
three stations of the Tokaido), signed Hiroshige ga, published by
impressions of this design (as here), the leg of the far right figure has
Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeido), circa 1834
a flaw whereby the block-cutter mistakenly did not cut away all the
Horizonal oban: 9Ω x 14æ in. (24.1 x 37.5 cm.)
wood between the lines of the legs. In these early impressions the
$18,000-22,000 black bokashi usually descends from the top of the design.
