A full moon rises over Lake Biwa's pine-clad shore

A pale full moon hangs high in a blue evening sky above Lake Biwa, seen from a pine-covered rocky point where temple buildings nestle among wind-bent trees. Mist softens the far shoreline and mountains, and a long low bridge stretches across the water toward the middle distance. The scene is framed at upper right by a poem card and the series cartouche 'Ōmi Hakkei no uchi' ('Eight Views of Ōmi'), with the artist's signature and red seal below it. The subject is Ishiyama-dera, a temple long associated with moon-viewing on the shore of Lake Biwa, shown here at the height of autumn.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was the last great master of the ukiyo-e landscape print. Born into a family of fire wardens in Edo, he turned to printmaking under Utagawa Toyohiro and found his subject in the roads and seasons of Japan — above all in the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (1833–34) and the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1856–58). His snow, rain and evening skies, and his bold near-and-far compositions, were studied closely by Van Gogh, Whistler and Monet. His prints are held by the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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