1857
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Meguro Drum Bridge and Sunset Hill, from One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo is a 1857 by Utagawa Hiroshige, a Impressionism work, depicting Snow, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
Snow swirls over a curved stone bridge packed with people in straw hats and umbrellas. Below, a shop roof peeks out beside the artist’s signature. This print is one of 119 views of old Tokyo. The bridge looks like a drum’s rim, so locals called it Drum Bridge. The shop served warm red-bean soup with rice cakes—comfort food on a cold day. To see more prints of daily life in old Japan, look up *japan, edo period (1615–1868)*.
The arched stone bridge over the Meguro River in Edo (now Tokyo) was known as the Drum Bridge for its resemblance to the rounded profile of a drum. This print shows people shielding themselves from the snow with hats and umbrellas as they cross it. In the foreground on the lower right, behind the artist’s signature, is the roof of a shop called Shōgatsu-ya that served shiruko mochi —a sweet red-bean soup with rice cakes that is a winter treat. Sunset Hill lies on the other side of the bridge and was once known for its red maple leaves in autumn.
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Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重) or Andō Hiroshige (安藤 広重), born Andō Tokutarō (安藤 徳太郎; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
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