Landscape: flowering cherry trees along the banks of a stream
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Accession Number
F1903.97
Tags
About this artwork
To 1903
Art Historical Context
This enchanting landscape, titled *Landscape: Flowering Cherry Trees Along the Banks of Stream*, is a kakemono—a traditional Japanese hanging scroll painting—created by Utagawa Hirosh II (1826–1869), a master of the ukiyo-e school. Active during the late Edo period (16151868), Hiroshige II carried forward the legacy of his teacher and uncle-by-marriage, the renowned Hiroshige I, whose depictions of nature and everyday life revolutionized Japanese printmaking. Though the exact medium remains unspecified, its classification as a painting aligns with the intimate, poetic style of ukiyo-e landscap...