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Night Rain at the Azuma Shrine (from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo)

Utagawa Hiroshige, mid-1830s

34 cm × 22 cm

About the size of an open laptop. You would need 5 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 22 cm
Width: 34 cm
Medium: color woodblock print
Kind: Print
Made in: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it: Sheet: 21.6 x 34.4 cm (8 1/2 x 13 9/16 in.)
Credit: Gift of Mrs. Henry S. Upson

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 34 cm × 22 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made mid-1830s. It is in the public domain, and The Cleveland Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Cleveland Museum of Art: Gift of Mrs. Henry S. Upson.
How was it made?: Color woodblock print, made in Japan, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan, Edo period (1615–1868).
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.