A white heron dives beside reeds as rafts pole across the river

Tall reed grasses rise through the foreground of a river view toward snow-capped Mount Fuji, with a low green hill along the far bank. A white heron dives head-first toward the water among the reeds. Two rafts are poled across the river; the nearer figure, in a patterned robe and yellow straw hat, stands on a raft bearing a thatched shelter with smoke rising from it. A red title cartouche is at the upper right; the signature sits in a red cartouche at the lower left, with round seals beneath.

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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