Snow blankets Sensoji's great red lantern and pagoda at dusk

A huge red-and-black paper lantern, inscribed with bold characters, hangs beside a gate pillar painted green and vermilion in the foreground as snow falls thickly over Asakusa. Beyond the gate, the wide temple approach is lined with snow-laden pine trees, small figures huddle under umbrellas, and the vermilion Hondo hall and a five-story pagoda rise through the grey, snow-heavy sky. A green title cartouche and the series name sit upper right, with Hiroshige's signature in a red panel at lower right. Part of Hiroshige's late series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, depicting the Kinryūzan (Sensoji) temple precinct at Asakusa under snow.

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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