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Follow the footprints across the snow to the women under their umbrellas, then look up at the snow heaped on the gate, the lanterns and the fence.
Hiroshige also designed views of famous places in Kyoto, the city at the other end of the Tōkaidō from Edo; the Art Institute dates this one to about 1834. Snow falls in white flecks over the Gion Shrine, settling on its tall gate, its stone lanterns and its wooden fence. Women hurry past under umbrellas and leave a trail of footprints behind them.
Color woodblock print; oban · 25.4 × 37.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Gion Shrine in Snow (Gionsha setchu), from the series "Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi)"
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858
- Date
- c. 1834
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions
- 25.4 × 37.5 cm (10 × 14 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Chester W. Wright
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.