Evening Snow on Mount Hira
Original title
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- JP54
- Credit
- Rogers Fund, 1914
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1858. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- Mount Hira, white with snow, rises behind the shore of Lake Biwa. Below it a village and a line of reeds edge the blue water, and a poem cartouche sits in the grey sky at upper left.
- Image
- 1600 × 1057
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009002
coldlibrary.com/g/009002 - Credit line
- Utagawa Hiroshige, Evening Snow on Mount Hira, c. 1835. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009002
From Hiroshige’s Eight Views of Ōmi, which carries an old Chinese theme, the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang rivers, to the shores of Lake Biwa; evening snow is one of the eight. The mountain is almost all paper, outlined and lightly shaded, and the only strong colour is the blue of the lake. It hangs here as a picture of how a borrowed form can find a new home.
