Edo Period, Ukiyo-e: Mount Fuji, by Utagawa Hiroshige.

A work by Utagawa Hiroshige I, executed during the Kaei era of the Edo period, 1848-1854.

A single sheet from Rissai hyakuzu (One Hundred Pictures by Rissai), a collection of abbreviated sketches, was framed at an earlier date and is now housed in a simple glazed wooden frame of shikishi format.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797, Kansei 9 - October 12,1858, the sixth day of the ninth month of Ansei 5) was an ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period. His birth name was Ando Juemon, and his childhood name was Tokutaro. He was subsequently also known as Juemon, Tetsuzo, or Tokube. Although sometimes referred to as Ando Hiroshige, Ando was his family name and Hiroshige his artist name. Combining the two is therefore inappropriate, and Hiroshige himself never used this designation.

He was born into the Ando family, whose members held hereditary positions in the permanent firefighting service in Edo. After inheriting the family position, he became an ukiyo-e artist. His landscape woodblock prints enjoyed widespread popularity and influenced Western painters, including Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet.