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Photo: Susan Cole
Sudden Rain, Shono (Shono haku-u), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan-tsugi no uchi)
Photo: Susan Cole

Sudden Rain, Shono (Shono haku-u), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan-tsugi no uchi)

Dateca. 1832-34
Maker Utagawa Hiroshige Japanese, 1797-1858
Label TextThis composition is from Utagawa Hiroshige’s best-known print series, Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi, which was published from 1833 to 1834 as fifty-five prints depicting the beginning, end, and all fifty-three stations along early-modern Japan’s most important and frequently traveled overland route. Shōno, the forty-fifth station, is shown in a sudden summer storm; men carrying a palanquin uphill brace against the rain as two others rush downhill.
Object number2017.23.18
Provenance[Egenolf Gallery, Burbank, California]; purchased from gallery by Allan Kollar, Seattle, Washington, 2006; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2017
Photo CreditPhoto: Susan Cole
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, SAM at 75: Building a Collection for Seattle, May 5 - Sept. 9, 2007. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints, Apr. 1 - July 4, 2010. Text by Catherine Roche. Cat. no. 53, reproduced p. 76. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Legends, Tales, Poetry: Visual Narrative in Japanese Art, Dec. 22, 2012 - July 21, 2013.Published ReferencesShirahara, Yukiko. "Ukiyo-e: The Aesthetics of Pleasure," A Community of Collectors, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 2008, p. 173, illus. 148.
Credit LineGift of Mary and Allan Kollar, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
DimensionsSheet: 14 3/4 x 9 5/8 in. (37.5 x 24.4 cm)
MediumWoodblock print; ink and color on paper
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Mie River, Yokkaichi (Yokkaichi, Miegawa), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan-tsugi no uchi)
Utagawa Hiroshige
ca. 1832-34
Object number: 2017.23.17
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Night Snow, Kambara (Kambara, yoru no yuki), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojûsan-tsugi no uchi)
Utagawa Hiroshige
ca. 1832-34
Object number: 2017.23.16
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Fujikawa (Fujikawa), from the series Pictures of Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations (Gojusan-tsugi meisho zue)
Utagawa Hiroshige
1855
Object number: 2017.23.21
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Lingering Snow on Mount Hira (Hira no bosetsu), from the series Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei no uchi)
Utagawa Hiroshige
ca. 1834-35
Object number: 2017.23.2
Photo: Scott Leen
Deep water at the Division into the Three Forks, from the series One Hundred Views of Edo
Utagawa Hiroshige
1857
Object number: 2023.11.79
Photo: Susan Cole
Plum Garden at Kameido (Kameido Ume yashiki), from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)
Utagawa Hiroshige
1857
Object number: 2017.23.22
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Drum Bridge and Setting Sun Hill, Meguro (Meguro, Taikobashi, Yuhi ga oka), from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)
Utagawa Hiroshige
1857
Object number: 2017.23.25
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Moon Cape, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo
Utagawa Hiroshige
1857
Object number: 2017.23.23
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Ichigaya Hachiman Shrine (Ichigaya Hachiman), from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)
Utagawa Hiroshige
1858
Object number: 2017.23.3
Photo: Susan Cole
Awa Province, Naruto Whirlpools (Awa, Naruto no fuha), from the series Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue)
Utagawa Hiroshige
1855
Object number: 2017.23.20
Photo: Susan Cole
Kinryuzan Temple, Asakusa (Asakusa, Kinryuzan), from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)
Utagawa Hiroshige
1856
Object number: 2017.23.24
Image Not Available for Rainstorm beneath the Summit (Sanka haku-u), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Rainstorm beneath the Summit (Sanka haku-u), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-32
Object number: 2010.47.3