#AshmoleanAdvent Day 21: Snowy Bridge

Today’s advent calendar treat is a woodblock print titled Yuhi Hill and Drum Bridge at Meguro by Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige.

The unusual arched bridge in this wintry landscape was known as a ‘drum bridge’ because of its shape.

It’s Friday & I’m pleased to announce that for the Half Man Half Biscuit fan who thinks they have everything,a new HMHB map of the UK has arrived with over 200 locations mentioned in their inimitable lyrics. Something for the weekend? Oh, yes, I think so. xx

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This charming print, created by Utagawa Hiroshige shows a crane in flight over a breaking wave.

Recognised as a master of his craft, Tokyo-born Hiroshige created thousands of prints of landscapes, nature and everyday life.

🌊 Detail of Crane in flight, mid-1830s, Utagawa Hiroshige, I. EAX.4402

Our first sunflower! If there’s a happier bloom, I’ve yet to see it.

🐰 Happy Easter to everyone celebrating!

This little rabbit netsuke is only 2.5 centimetres high. A netsuke is an ornamental toggle or counterweight used to attach small containers to the sash worn with the traditional Japanese kimono.

The other Leisure Centres listed as part of C20's campaign are:

📍Bell’s, Perth
John B. Davidson, 1968
📍Oasis Leisure Centre, Swindon
Gillinson Barnett & Partners, 1974-75
📍Richard Dunn Sports Centre, Bradford
Trevor Skempton, 1974-78
📍Doncaster Dome
Faulkner-Brown Hendy Watkinson Stonor, 1986-89

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1382

Today’s festive #AshmoleanAdvent treat is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s beautiful ‘View of snow on Benten Hill’ at Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa.

On 18 December in Middle-earth: the Fellowship of the Ring is formed. Pippin was the last member to be agreed with Gandalf saying, "trust rather to their friendship than to great wisdom". The Fellowship set out a week later.

Image: Caradhras by Lída Holubová #Tolkien #LOTR

EXC: Ministers facing growing calls to exclude members of the House of Lords who rarely attend.

Convenor of the crossbenchers Lord Kinnoull says booting out those who attend 10 percent or less of sitting days could cut the size of the Lords by 100 peers
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An angel for #AshmoleanAdvent Day 3 🪽 Bathed in light, this red chalk angel by Renaissance artist Raphael was a preparatory drawing for the Chigi Chapel in Rome.

Open today's door to learn more: www.ashmolean.org/advent

🪽 Study for an angel, c. 1515–16, by Raphael (1483–1520). WA1846.208

Here, Hiroshige has skilfully depicted the chilly silence of a winter afternoon, using unprinted white space to evoke snow.

❄️ Yuhi Hill and Drum Bridge at Meguro, 1857, by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). EAX.4368

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1347

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