Porters ford a wide river beneath a distant Mount Fuji

Under a pale sky and a distant Mount Fuji, porters wade a broad river carrying two woven platforms slung between bamboo poles. One carries a seated woman beneath a straw hat and a red-and-yellow canopy; the other holds two women in patterned kimono, one wearing a straw hat. Several bare-headed porters with cloth headbands push through the blue-green waves alongside them. A red title cartouche sits at upper right, the artist's signature cartouche at left and a seal 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.

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