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Night Rain in the Grove of Gion, from the series Parody of Eight Views (Taira no Tadanori Captures the Priest of Mido [the Oil-Thief])

Night Rain in the Grove of Gion, from the series Parody of Eight Views (Taira no Tadanori Captures the Priest of Mido [the Oil-Thief])

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Utagawa Hiroshige

Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858)
Title
Night Rain in the Grove of Gion, from the series Parody of Eight Views (Taira no Tadanori Captures the Priest of Mido [the Oil-Thief])
Date
ca. 1846
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
a: 368 x 250 mm; b: 365 x 247 mm; c: 367 x 257 mm Overall
Credit
John H. Van Vleck Endowment Fund purchase
Accession No.
2003.13a-c
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

  • Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 166, no. 149
  • Robinson, B.W. "Kuniyoshi: The Warrior Prints," 1982. p. 177, no. 182

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