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Utagawa Hiroshige Atagoshita and Yabu Lane, 1857 Colour print from woodblocks. From the collection of The Fitzwilliam Museum. The Fitzwilliam Museum has an impressive collection of beautiful Japanese woodblock prints by some of the country's most renowned artists, including a set of Hiroshige's series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, published between 1856 and 1858. This snowy city scene is No. 112 from the winter section of the series. To the right is pictured a copse of bamboo which was a well-known landmark in Edo (modern-day Tokyo), giving Yabu ('thicket') Lane its name. The red gates in the distance lead up to the Atago shrine.

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Utagawa Hiroshige is recognized as a master of the ukiyo-e woodblock printing tradition, having created 8,000 prints of everyday life and landscape in Edo-period Japan with a splendid, saturated ambience. Hiroshige's prolific output was somewhat due to his being paid very little, requiring him to complete an astounding number of works. He receded to Buddhist monkhood in 1856 to complete his brilliant and lasting One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1856-58). He died in 1858, 10 years before Monet, Van Gogh, Whistler, and a host of Impressionist painters became eager collectors of Japanese art. And so Hiroshige's surging bokashi, or varied gradient printing, lives on--visibly influencing artists to this day.

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