1835
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Suhara, from the series Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido is a 1835 by Utagawa Hiroshige, a Romanticism work, depicting Rain, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a scene from the Kisokaido road in Japan. It's a landscape with trees and buildings. The artist made many prints of this road, and this one is special because it's part of a big series. The series has 69 prints, each showing a different stop on the road. This one is called Suhara, which was an important stop for travelers. You can learn more about Japanese landscapes by looking at the work of artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)
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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