A low pine crowns a rocky islet as three white birds skim the pond.

A gnarled, low-spreading pine grows from a small rocky islet in a turquoise pond, with three white birds flying low over the water toward it. Green hills rise beyond a distant shoreline under a pale sunset sky. In the foreground, a rider sits atop a laden packhorse, followed by a palanquin carried by two bearers and two travellers on foot, crossing a grey road past a thatched teahouse hung with red lanterns. A red title cartouche sits upper right; the signature is in a red cartouche at mid-left, with a black publisher's seal in the lower-left corner.

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.