Edo Period Ukiyo-e: Turtle and Pine, by Utagawa Hiroshige.

This work by Utagawa Hiroshige I dates to the Kaei era (1848-1854) of the Edo period. It is a leaf from Ryakuga Rissai hyakuzu (One Hundred Simplified Drawings by Rissai) and was framed at an earlier date. It is now housed in a simple wooden frame with acrylic glazing, slightly larger than a postcard.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797, Kansei 9 - October 12,1858, Ansei 5, ninth month, sixth day) was an ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period. His personal name was Ando Juemon, and his childhood name was Tokutaro. He was later also known as Juemon, Tetsuzo, or Tokubei. Although sometimes referred to as Ando Hiroshige, Ando was his family name and Hiroshige his art name. Combining the two is therefore inappropriate, and Hiroshige himself never used this form of his name. Born into the Ando family, which was responsible for permanent firefighting duties in Edo, he inherited the family position before becoming an ukiyo-e artist. His landscape woodblock prints enjoyed widespread popularity and influenced Western painters, including Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet.