Utagawa Hiroshige
Japanese, 1797–1858
Eight Views of Kanazawa at Night, 1857
Triptych of color woodblock prints
35.9 × 25.4 cm (14 ¼ × 10 in.)
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss for the Dudley P. Allen Collection
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.
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