Evening Glow, Tsushima Province , from the series Views of Famous Pla

A woodblock print showing a broad blue sea dotted with small green islands and white-sailed boats, with a large rainbow arching across the pale sky above a distant mountainous coast. Stylized waves, layered tones and a red title cartouche frame the calm evening scene.

Look closer: Small white sails of distant boats dot the blue water near the horizon on the right.

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Date

ca. 1853

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1306 × 1908 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936