A boatman poles a melon-laden boat beneath a moonlit bridge

A wooden arched bridge crosses a canal lined with tall stacks of bamboo poles rising like a palisade at left. Figures in kimono cross the bridge in the middle distance, one carrying a lantern on a pole. Below, a boatman in a green robe poles a small flat boat piled high with round yellow melons across the pale blue-green water. A full moon glows in the upper sky above the bridge's railing. The title cartouche and artist's signature appear in red panels at upper right and mid-right. From the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, depicting the bamboo quay near Kyōbashi Bridge in Edo.

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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