A shrine banner hangs over boats and a mikoshi procession by the bay

A tall white banner brushed with bold characters hangs from a bamboo pole in the foreground, tied along its length. A pine leans in at the left above calm blue water, where cargo boats sit at anchor and a boatman in a conical hat poles a small boat. On the far shore a gold-roofed portable shrine is carried through a crowd beneath small red flags, with marsh grass and low hills beyond. A red title cartouche sits at the upper right; Hiroshige's red signature cartouche and a black square seal are at the 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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