A great wave curls beneath Mount Fuji as birds pass overhead

A large cresting wave sweeps across the lower half of the composition, its foam rendered in sharp white lines against deep blue water. A wind-bent pine leans from a rocky cliff at left, framing a distant snow-capped Mount Fuji across a calm bay where a small sailboat and rowboat cross the water. A flock of dark birds flies in formation against a red-to-white gradient sky at the top of the sheet. The artist's signature and red seal appear at lower left, with the series title cartouche in the upper right. From the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, depicting the coast at Satta Point in Suruga Province.

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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