Boats drift through a snowbound gorge on the Fuji River

Snow blankets steep rock walls on both sides of a deep blue gorge as flakes fall thickly through the sky. In the lower gorge a figure in a conical hat poles a small boat past ice-flecked rocks, with a second red-hulled boat farther up the channel. Snow-dusted pines cling to the ledges and a single tall pine rises at the centre of the view. The signature and a red square seal sit directly on the grey sky at the upper 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.

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