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Prologue by Utagawa Hiroshige — VisualArtsDB

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Prologue

Prologue

Utagawa Hiroshige

1835

Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 9 1/8 × 14 in. (23.2 × 35.5 cm) (image, horizontal ōban)
Genre: Print
Museum: Minneapolis Institute of Art

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Night View of Saruwaka-machi (Saruwaka-machi yoru no kei), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

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Utagawa Hiroshige, 1852