Fishing boats cross Kuroto Bay beneath distant Fuji

Mount Fuji rises pale and snow-capped on the horizon across Kuroto Bay, its lower slopes wrapped in haze beneath a red-streaked dawn sky. Fishing boats with bare masts cluster at left while smaller craft, poled by standing fishermen, cross the calm water toward pine-fringed banks in the foreground. The vertical red cartouche at upper right reads 'Fuji Sanjūrokkei, Kazusa Kurotonoura' ('Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji: Kurotonoura in Kazusa Province'), with the artist's signature in a red panel at left and seals at lower left. Kazusa lay along the Pacific coast east of Edo, and Hiroshige's series placed Fuji at the edge of everyday coastal life rather than in isolation.

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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