Carpenters repair Yoshida Castle above a river bridge at dusk

Seen from a pine-covered bluff, the long wooden Toyokawa bridge stretches across a wide blue river estuary toward the distant hills under a peach-toned evening sky. In the foreground, two carpenters work on bamboo scaffolding lashed to a turret of Yoshida Castle, one climbing a ladder-pole, re-roofing the building's tiled eaves. Gnarled pine trees frame the castle roofs at right, small boats drift on the river below, and sails and rooftops of the post town are visible across the water. The title cartouche sits at upper centre, with Hiroshige's signature and red seal at upper left. From the Hoeido Tōkaidō series, showing Yoshida-juku with Yoshida Castle overlooking the Toyokawa River bridge.

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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