Twilight Snow at Mount Hira (Hira bosetsu), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Twilight Snow at Mount Hira (Hira bosetsu), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei)

Twilight Snow at Mount Hira (Hira bosetsu), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei)

「近江八景　比良暮雪」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)

Japanese

Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (aizuri-e); color on paper

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 23.5 x 16.8 cm (9 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.9034

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 238, chûban #5.6

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks No censor's seal
No publisher's mark
改印：なし
版元：なし

InscriptionsPoem: Yuki haruru/ Hira no takane no/ yûgure wa/ hana no sakari ni/ suguru koro ka na

ProvenanceMay 1916, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.