1887 · F372 · JH1297
Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige)
Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige), 1887. Meaning, analysis, themes, technique, period and related Van Gogh artworks connected from Japanese Print Translations.
Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige) meaning and analysis
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Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige). He added a border of kanji around the original — copied from a magazine, he couldn't read Japanese, but felt the characters were patterns in themselves. Hiroshige's fine rain lines became his heavy strokes. Translation, not copying.