A rain-soaked procession moves past a misty wooded ridge

Heavy diagonal rain falls across a wooded hillside as a line of travelers in straw hats and red-and-green rain capes crosses a wooden bridge, a spear with a feathered cover held aloft above them. A swollen blue stream pours down from the ridge beside the road, and bare and leafing trees rise into grey mist above a walled compound. A vertical title cartouche and red seals sit at upper centre; Hiroshige's signature and seal appear at right.

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.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.