Evening Snow on Mount Hira

A woodblock landscape of a snow-dusted mountain rising above misty slopes, with thatched houses and reeds along the shore. Calm blue water holds a small boat, and a poem cartouche sits in the upper left corner.

Look closer: A small boat sits on the blue water at the lower right, nearly lost against the shoreline.

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Date

ca. 1832

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

4000 × 2788 px

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