Glowing foxes gather beneath a great bare tree at night

Dozens of pale foxes with small flames flickering above their heads gather in a night field beneath the gnarled, leafless branches of a huge ancient tree. Some sit, some stand in clusters, their fox-fire lights scattered across the dark landscape toward a distant line of thatched roofs. Stars speckle the deep grey-green sky above. Straw stacks and bare saplings dot the foreground near the tree's roots. The artist's signature and red seal sit at lower right, with the title cartouche at upper right. From the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, illustrating the legend of fox-fires gathering under the enoki tree near Ōji on New Year's Eve.

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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