No. 5: Yoshitsune Takes a Shortcut and Scales the Steep and Dangerous Precipice at Hiyodori Pass (Gokai, Kando ni omomuku Yoshitsune Hiyodori goe no kenshun nansho o yojinoboru), from the series "The Life of Yoshitsune (Yoshitsune ichidaiki no uchi)"
Utagawa Hiroshige
c. 1832/34
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Dimensions
25.7 × 38.4 cm (10 1/8 × 15 1/8 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
47441
About the Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1826–1869
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...