Landscape and Legend

Utagawa Hiroshige

Driving Rain at Shōno

1833

Color woodblock print, 25.4 × 38 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art

Travelers bent double hurry along a slope as a sudden squall whips the bamboo.

• The publisher's name, Takenouchi, appears on one traveler's umbrella.
• Shōno was a minor station on a mostly coastal route.
• Three tones of gray print the bamboo, each fainter with distance.

Image: Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access · CC0