A full moon lights a bustling theater street at night

A wide street lined with two-story wooden shops and theaters recedes toward a deep blue night sky, where a full moon glows through faint cloud. Lantern-lit shopfronts and paper screens glow warm yellow along both sides, while dozens of small figures in dark robes move through the street, casting long grey shadows. A white dog and two smaller dogs trot among the crowd in the foreground. Sign boards and a hanging red lantern hang from the eaves above the shops. The title cartouche and artist's seal sit in red panels at the upper right and left. From the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, depicting the Saruwaka-machi theater district by moonlight.

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.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.