Prints, Drawings, and Photographs View From Koshigaya in Musashi Province (Musashi Koshigaya), No. 14 from the series Thirty-Six Views of Fuji (Fuji Sanjūrokkei) Made in Japan, AsiaEdo Period (1615-1868), 1858 Utagawa Hiroshige I, Japanese, 1797 - 1858. Published by Tsutaya Kichizō, Kōeidō. Color woodcut Currently not on view 1959-94-1 Gift of Carl Zigrosser, 1959 |
LabelUtagawa Hiroshige was one of Japan’s most talented nineteenth-century landscape artists. This woodcut is part of a series of views of Mount Fuji in which the revered mountain is seen in the distance, often glimpsed through trees, reeds, or raindrops that occupy the immediate foreground. |
