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"tombstone": "Evening Snow at Asuka Hill, from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo, c. 1837\u201338. Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797\u20131858). Color woodblock print; sheet: 22 x 34.4 cm (8 11/16 x 13 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of James Parmelee, 1940.983",
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"title": "Evening Snow at Asuka Hill, from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo",
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"measurements": "Sheet: 22 x 34.4 cm (8 11/16 x 13 9/16 in.)",
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"inscription": "Signature: Hiroshige ga.\nPublisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikaku).\nCensorship Seal: kiwame.",
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"inscription": "The snow falling heavily in the dusk not only covers up signs/ \nthat warn against breaking branches of the cherry trees on Asuka Hill,/ \nbut breaks down the branches, as well. \n- Sh\u014dy\u014dan K\u014djin (or Takahito)",
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"inscription_remark": "The signature Sh\u014dy\u014dan K\u014djin means \u201cHermitage of Pine and Cherry, High Person.\u201d",
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"title": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation",
"description": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 2-July 9, 2018).",
"opening_date": "2018-01-02T05:00:00"
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"description": "Japanese Prints and Ceramics from The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, and The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. College of Wooster, Wooster, OH (October 9-November 1, 1981).",
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"description": "James Parmelee [1855\u20131931], Cleveland, OH and Washington D.C., bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"date": "?\u20131940",
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"date": "1940\u2013",
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"description": "This print series was first privately produced for the Taihaid\u014d poetry club led by a \u201cwild\u201d or comic verse (ky\u014dka) poet with the humorous pen name Taihaid\u014d Donsh\u014d (or Nomimasu), which translates to \u201cHall of the Large Cup, Swallow a Liter (or Drink).\u201d The initial print had three poems by members of the club at the top. This print, released as part of a public set of the series later on, has but a single poem, not featured in the original, which reads:
The snow falling heavily in the dusk not only covers up signs
that warn against breaking branches of the cherry trees on Asuka Hill,
but breaks down the branches, as well.
It is signed Sh\u014dy\u014dan K\u014djin (or Takahito), which means \u201cHermitage of Pine and Cherry, High Person.\u201d",
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"citations": [
{
"citation": "Hollis, Howard. \"The Bequest of James Parmelee.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no. 2 (February 1941): 15\u201327.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 19",
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"Evening Snow on Mt. Asuka (from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo)"
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"updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:12:39.161000"
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