Landscape and Legend

Hiroshige

Travel, weather and the city, 1830s–1858

The designer (1797–1858) made his name in the early 1830s with views of the Tōkaidō, the highway between Edo and Kyoto. His last great series, on Edo itself, appeared in the late 1850s.

• Mood made from weather, season and hour
• Bird's-eye and close-up viewpoints
• City places and pastimes in his last years

Works in this part

• Morning View of Nihonbashi
• Hara: Mount Fuji in the Morning
• Evening Snow at Kanbara
• Driving Rain at Shōno
• The Monkey Bridge in Kai Province
• Wild Geese Flying under the Full Moon
• Fukagawa Susaki and Jūmantsubo
• Fireworks at Ryōgoku
• Plum Garden at Kameido

Image: The Met Open Access · Public domain (Met Open Access)