Artist field note

Utagawa Hiroshige

Weather turns travel into feeling.

Appears inJapan
Whirlpools at Awa Province by Utagawa Hiroshige
Art Institute of Chicago · Public domainSource ↗

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Whirlpools at Awa Province

1855

Currents twist through a compressed sea, making water both pattern and danger.

The five in one idea

Hiroshige made landscape inseparable from season, journey and the emotional life of passing through.