1857
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Evening View of the Eight Famous Places near Kanazawa Under Full Moon in Musashi Province is a 1857 by Utagawa Hiroshige, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a long, narrow print of a moonlit coastline: tiny fishing boats, dark hills, and a double-arched bridge at the bottom right. Hiroshige made this near the end of his life. He was part of a series showing snow, moon, and flowers—this one is the moon. People in his time would have known the real places in the scene, like recognizing a postcard of home. To see more prints like this, look up *japan, edo period (1615–1868)*.
Late in his career, Hiroshige explored the poetic theme of setsugekka , “snow, moon, and flowers,” in a set of three triptychs. This panoramic scene shows the autumn moon over Kanazawa, near Tokyo. Hiroshige’s contemporaries would have recognized the coastline dotted with villages, fishing boats, and the distinctive double-arched bridge at the bottom right.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重) or Andō Hiroshige (安藤 広重), born Andō Tokutarō (安藤 徳太郎; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
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