Clare Pollard

Utagawa Hiroshige I, Evening shower at Ōhashi Bridge, Atake (Ōhashi Atake no yudachi), nineteenth century, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Clare Pollard, Curator of Japanese Art at the Ashmolean discusses a print by Hiroshige, revealing how the artist’s use of colour and composition provides a striking depiction of figures being caught in a rainstorm. Learn more about the work with additional resources.

Watanabe Nangaku, Bijin, or beautiful woman with a skull, early nineteenth century, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Clare Pollard, Curator of Japanese Art at the Ashmolean brings to life a Japanese scroll, and what it reveals about the lives of courtesans in nineteenth-century Japan. Learn more about the work with additional resources.