Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige
Title: Man Polling a Raft - Shiki Koto Meisho
Date: Originally ca. 1834-5, this is a re-carved edition in ca. 1900.
Details & Prices: Utagawa Hiroshige: Man Polling a Raft - Shiki Koto Meisho - Artelino
Source:
artelino - Japanese Prints
Browse all 24,756 prints...
Description:
"Shiki Koto Meisho; Fuyu, Sumidagawa no Yuki" (Famous Views of Edo in Four Seasons; Winter, The Snow at the Sumida River) A man in straw hat and raincoat poles wooden rafts on the Sumida river. The snow is falling heavily around him. The poem was read in the reference book as, "Even on the waters of Sumida River, the snow that falls fails to melt - or could they be seagulls?".
