Travelers climb a snow-draped mountain pass at first light

A diagonal path climbs a snow-covered mountainside, cut by the dark trunks of wind-bent pines. Small figures in blue robes and round hats trudge upward past a walled compound and gatehouse perched on the ridge above. The sky shifts from pale blue at the crest to a soft pink band along the horizon, the pigment used for dawn or dusk light. Snow coats every rooftop, branch, and slope in flat white, broken only by dark rock outcrops and scattered pines. A red title cartouche and the artist's red seal sit in the upper left and lower right corners. From the Hoeidō edition of the Tōkaidō Fifty-three Stations, depicting the station of Kameyama.

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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