A fire tower rises through willows above dyed cloth hung to dry

A tall wooden fire lookout tower rises between two willow trees just coming into leaf. Below, long lengths of dyed cloth in blue, gold, purple and white sweep across the scene on poles, hung out to dry above the riding ground's wooden fence and rows of houses. A man in black stands beneath the cloth, and on the open ground three small dogs, two white and one tan, trot beside a trail of paw prints near clipped green shrubs. A red title cartouche sits at the upper right and Hiroshige's signature at the lower right.

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.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.