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Mellow there, too

Autumn Moon on the Tama River’’ (woodblock), by Ando Hiroshige, ln the show “Ando Hiroshige Woodblock Prints,’’ through Nov. 17, at the Southern Vermont Arts Center.

Andō Hiroshige, born Andō Tokutarō in 1797, has been revered as one of the great Japanese masters of the color woodblock print, so much so that an estimated 10,000 copies were made from some of his woodblocks.