Bathers and travelers gather by a river at dusk

A wide river crossing unfolds below a range of pink- and blue-tinted mountains under a pale evening sky. Porters wade across the shallows carrying travelers on their shoulders and on a raised litter, while others gather on the sandy bank beside a broad reed bed. The white walls of a castle town sit at the base of the hills. A title cartouche names the station at upper right; the signature and seal appear 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.

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.