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The collection of the snowy landscape of Hiroshige’s ukiyo-e

Even among the many ukiyo-e artists, Utagawa Hiroshige was particularly good at landscape paintings. The snowy scene that he drew expresses a distinctive quietly. I would like to introduce 14 works of Hiroshige’s winter landscapes including Kambara, the snow in the night in “Fifty-Three Stages on the Tokaido“.

“Fifty-Three Stages on the Tokaido”

Mystery of ‘Kambara, the snow in the night’

Kambara is located in Shizuoka prefecture and Kameyama is in Mie prefecture. Hiroshige visited Kambara in the summer, that the land is mild and has almost no snowfall. It is considered one of the mysteries of “Fifty-Three Stages on the Tokaido”.

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Utagawa Hiroshige's "Fifty-Three Stages on the Tokaido" ukiyo-e woodbloc…

The masterpiece arts of Utagawa Hiroshige, "Fifty-Three Stages on the Tokaido" Utagawa(Ando) Hiroshige led the field of landscape printing in ukiiyo-e. Especially, "Fifty-Three Stages on the Tokaido" is one of the most highly regarded woodblock printings series in Japanese art. One of the famous landscape ukiyo-e woodblock prints When he started to draw the paintings around 1833, "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji" ,by the most famou…

“One hundred good scenery in Edo”

Susaki and the Jūmantsubo Plain near Fukagawa

The series of “One hundred good scenery in Edo” is divided into four seasons, and six winter landscapes are included in the winter part. Most of them are depicted the landscape Edo Town covered with snow from the view on the ground, only Susaki and the Jūmantsubo Plain near Fukagawa overlooks the streets from the viewpoint of the falcon.

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Utagawa Hiroshige's ukiyo-e artworks of "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo"

The gallery of "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo"In 1853, Utagawa(Ando) Hiroshige began to draw the new series of landscape ukiyo-e. He already held the position of pupular ukiyo-e artist by the succuess of "Fifty-Three Stages on the Tokaido". His new work was on the theme of sights in various parts of the Edo. As its name suggests, "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" consists of more than 100 paintings(and table of contents). And they are divided into four sea…

The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō

Kiso Kaido passed the inland area of Honshu from Edo as a starting point and reached Kyoto. This road went through an area where rugged mountains continued such as Nagano prefecture and Gifu prefecture, so in the winter it became a scenery covered with deep snow like the pictures.

“Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces”

There are three works of snow scenes in “Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces” drawn sights of various places in Japan, using many compositions. Musashi and Ueno were in the present Kanto region, and Iki was in Nagasaki prefecture.

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