Cherry blossoms crowd a red temple veranda above a pond

Cherry trees in full pink bloom crowd around a red-railed temple veranda where robed figures walk beneath tall pines, one trained into a distinctive open loop. Below, Shinobazu Pond stretches toward a tree-lined far shore, while more visitors stroll a path along the slope in the foreground. The series title sits in a red panel at the upper right beside a pink cartouche naming the view; the artist's signature is set in a red panel at the lower right, and the publisher's black seal sits at the lower left.

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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