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Nissaka-sayo no Naka Yama|東海道五十三次之内 日坂 佐夜の中山|Station Twenty-six: Nissaka, Sayo no Nakayama, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido

Utagawa Hiroshige

ca. 1833–34

Nissaka-sayo no Naka Yama|東海道五十三次之内 日坂 佐夜の中山|Station Twenty-six: Nissaka, Sayo no Nakayama, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido by Utagawa Hiroshige

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

9 3/8 x 14 3/8 in. (23.8 x 36.5 cm)

Classification

Prints

Culture & Period

Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Henry L. Phillips Collection, Bequest of Henry L. Phillips, 1939

Accession Number

JP2878

Tags

Human FiguresLandscapesTrees

About the Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige · 18261869

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), born Andō Tokutarō, was the last great master of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printmaking and one of the most influential landscape artists in history. Born in Edo (modern Tokyo) into a low-ranking samurai family serving as fire wardens, Hiroshige transformed landscape printmaking into a poetic meditation on nature, weather, and everyday life. His revolutionary approac...

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