Image: Hiroshige Roseau sous la neige et canard sauvage. JPG | Reeds in the Snow with a Wild Duck

Image: Hiroshige nuit de neige à Kambara. JPG | Night Snow at Kambara

Image: Hiroshige matin clair d ' hiver à Kameyama. jpg | Clear Weather After Snow at Kameyama

Image: Hiroshige Van Gogh 1. JPG | Hiroshige, The Plum Garden in Kameido, woodcut, 1857right: Van Gogh, Flowering Plum Tree, oil on canvas, homage to Hiroshige

Image: Hiroshige Van Gogh 2. JPG | Hiroshige, Great Bridge, Sudden Shower at Atake woodcut, c. 1857right: Van Gogh, The Bridge in the Rain, oil on canvas, homage to Hiroshige

Ando Hiroshige and Kunisada also published many pictures drawn on motifs from nature.

Examples of classic Japanese armour from the mid-19th century, steel sword blades ( Katana ), Inrō, lacquerware including the Mazarin Chest dated c1640 is one of the finest surviving pieces from Kyoto, porcelain including Imari, Netsuke, woodblock prints including the work of Ando Hiroshige, graphic works include printed books, as well as a few paintings, scrolls and screens, textiles and dress including kimonos are some of the objects on display.

Among the artists who produced prints on this subject are Utamaro, Toyokuni, Hokusai, Kunisada, Hiroshige and Yoshitoshi.

During this time Kunisada collaborated with ( one or both of ) Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi in three major series as well as on a number of smaller projects.

Shimosuwa was the 29th station on the 59-station Nakasendo ( literally ' the route through the mountains ') and was featured in the woodblock print series of the Nakasendo by the artist Hiroshige.

Similar parading courtesans feature in Cherry Blossom in the Evening on the Nakanomachi in Yoshiwara by Utagawa Hiroshige and True Scenery of the Gay Quarter of Minatozakimachi Shinminato by Utagawa Sadahide.

Japanese artist Hiroshige designed a couple of prints of the moon seen over the bay from within a tea-house or brothel on Tsuki no Misaki.

Gen ' emon and his wife died in 1809, when Hiroshige was 12 years old, just a few months after his father had passed the position on to him.

Both Hiroshige II and Hiroshige III worked in a distinctive style based on that of Hiroshige, but neither achieved the level of success and recognition accorded to their master.

Hiroshige went on to produce more than 2000 different prints of Edo and post stations Tōkaidō, as well as series such as The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō ( 1834 – 1842 ) and Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji ( 1852 – 1858 ).

The set was published posthumously and some prints had not been completed — he had created over 100 on his own, but two were added by Hiroshige II after his death.

This ukiyo-e by Hiroshige illustrates the sailboats at Yahashi, one of the Eight Views of Omi | Eight Views of Ōmi, c. 1834

In Japonisme, late-19th-century artists like the Impressionists, Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Whistler admired traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e artists like Hokusai and Hiroshige and their work was influenced by it.

The Tale of Genji became a favorite subject of Japanese woodblock artists for centuries with artists such as Hiroshige, Kiyonaga, and Utamaro illustrating various editions of the novel.

: File: Murasaki Genji Hiroshige. jpg | Hiroshige ukiyo-e, ( 1852 ), shows an interior court scene from The Tale of Genji.

Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Sharaku were the prominent artists of this period.

By this time, his career was beginning to wane as younger artists such as Andō Hiroshige became increasingly popular.

Some of the Thames paintings also show compositional and thematic similarities with the Japanese prints of Hiroshige.

Odawara-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in his series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō.

The famous print generally known as ' The Vision of Kiyomori ' by Utagawa Hiroshige depicts the actor Nakamura Utayemon IV in the character of Kiyomori, confronted by the horrific vision of his snow-filled garden transformed into the heaped bones and skulls of his slaughtered enemies.

Print by Hiroshige.

Woodblock printing in Japan | Japanese woodblock print of Tanabata festivities in Edo ( Tokyo ), 1852, by Hiroshige.

Hiroshige ’ s The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō ( 1833 – 1834 ) and One Hundred Famous Views of Edo ( 1856 – 1858 ) greatly influenced French Impressionists such as Monet.

* 53 stages of the Tōkaidō ( road ) by Hiroshige and Ukiyo-e artist in Heisei period

Ukiyo-e artist Andō Hiroshige was born in the Yayosu barracks in the Yaesu area in 1797.

Woodblock printing in Japan | Japanese woodblock print of Tanabata festivities in Edo ( Tokyo ), 1852, by Hiroshige

* Five different woodblock print versions of the story by Ando Hiroshige

All the great woodblock artists of the early part of the century, Hiroshige, Kunisada, and Kuniyoshi, had died decades earlier, and the woodblock print as an art form was dying in the confusion of modernizing Japan.

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji and cherry blossom from 36 Views of Mount Fuji ( Hiroshige ) | 36 Views of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige. Every year the Japanese Meteorological Agency and the public track the sakura zensen ( cherry blossom front ) as it moves northward up the archipelago with the approach of warmer weather via nightly forecasts following the weather segment of news programs.

This Hiroshige ukiyo-e woodblock printing in Japan | print shows a Naruto whirlpool.

Hiroshige II was a young print artist, Chinpei Suzuki, who married Hiroshige's daughter, Otatsu.

This set is generally distinguished from Hiroshige's many print sets depicting Edo by referring to it as Ichiyūsai Gakki, a title derived from the fact that he signed it as Ichiyūsai Hiroshige.

During Hiroshige ’ s time, the print industry was booming, and the consumer audience for prints was growing rapidly.

Snow is extremely rare, usually falling once every ten years.

Snow is typically light and sporadic, averaging, falling a few inches (< 10 cm ) at a time, and does not usually remain on the ground for long.

Armstrong, the scientist from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, told a journalist, " Another twist is very large icicles falling from cliffs along highways hitting cars.

Clan Sea Fox and Clan Snow Raven had a falling out, and in response Clan Snow Raven created the Diamond Shark, a predator designed solely to hunt and kill the Sea Foxes in Strana Mechty's oceans.

Snow began falling at 8: 45 p. m. and by 5 a. m.

* On the last picture, there is a Snow Scout handbook falling from the Freaks caravan, foreshadowing The Slippery Slope.

Snow falling in Gleadless, 1 December 2010

Snow falling in Gleadless, 1 December 2010

Snow falling at the Guthrie

Snow Falling on Cedars book cover, from http :// www. awesomestories. com / movies / stories / snow_falling / images / snow. falling. cedars. jpg

Snow fell across portions of the state during this storm, with falling at a dairy farm in Franklin.

:* Blowing Snow Advisory-( deprecated ) Sustained winds or frequent gusts of 25 to 35 mph ( 40 to 56 km / h ) accompanied by falling and blowing snow, occasionally reducing visibility to 1 / 4 mile ( 0. 4 km ) or less.

Ruth Sanderson retold the story in the picture book The Snow Princess, in which falling in love does not immediately kill the princess, but turns her into a mortal human, who will die.

Snow was falling gently that afternoon and a layer of 0. 6 to 1. 3 centimetres of snow had accumulated on the wings.

Snow began falling on Washington, D. C. and Baltimore during the late evening of January 6 and continued at a consistent rate until mid-afternoon the next day.

Snow began falling during the predawn hours of the 7th and became heavy at times during the morning.