Travelers pass a torii gate in morning mist

Travelers move through thick morning mist past a torii gate and stone lanterns beside a thatched building and tall pines. Porters shoulder a pole-slung palanquin, and a rider in a wide hat sits on a laden pack-horse, their conical hats and patterned robes set against the pale grey haze. A lone figure in a wide hat fades into the fog at left. The haze darkens to a blue band at the top edge; Hiroshige's signature and red seal sit at 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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