Travelers rush across a bridge in a sudden downpour

A wooden bridge stretches diagonally across a wide river under a slanting curtain of grey rain rendered in fine parallel lines. Several figures cross hurriedly, hunched under round straw hats and rain capes, one shielding herself beneath a black umbrella. A lone raft drifts on the water below, its boatman poling through the rain, while the far bank shows a hazy line of trees and rooftops beneath low storm clouds. The artist's signature and red seal appear at lower left, with the title cartouche at upper right. From the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, depicting a sudden summer squall over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge near the Atake district.

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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