{"product_id":"hiroshige-woodblock-print-ohashi-atake-no-yudachi","title":"Hiroshige Woodblock Print Ohashi Atake no Yudachi (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA yudachi is a specific phenomenon: an evening descent of sudden summer rain, in which the sky darkens rapidly, releases a short and heavy storm, then clears. Hiroshige rendered it in 1857 through an overlay of fine diagonal lines at crossing angles pressed across the blue-gray expanse of the Sumida River — a technically demanding woodblock technique and one of the most recognizable compositional decisions in the history of the medium. Figures on the Great Bridge scramble for cover under umbrellas, mats, and straw hats. A solitary boatman poles downstream below, indifferent. Ohashi Atake no Yudachi is the 58th print in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo and is widely considered the masterpiece of the series. In 1887, Vincent van Gogh copied it in oil paint; that painting now hangs in Amsterdam. This reproduction is produced by Takahashi Kobo, founded in Bunkyo, Tokyo between 1854 and 1860, the oldest ukiyo-e woodblock studio in continuous operation in Japan, now in its sixth generation. Every print is hand-carved, hand-pigmented, and pressed onto washi by hand with a baren.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Takahashi Kobo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53449157148986,"sku":"tkk080010101","price":220.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4499\/8202\/files\/TakahashiKobo_OhashiAtake_Square_1_ebd3506c-324d-4998-9fb1-421589926f26.webp?v=1786344478","url":"https:\/\/omakase-forest.com\/products\/hiroshige-woodblock-print-ohashi-atake-no-yudachi","provider":"omakase","version":"1.0","type":"link"}