Evening View of Kiribata in Rain at Akasaka

A woodblock print of a rainy evening in a hillside grove: slanting rain lines fall over dark pine silhouettes and a diagonal path, while blossoming trees and a green slope sit in the foreground. Three figures under umbrellas walk toward a low wooden building at the lower right, with a pale glow on the ground.

Look closer: A lone traveler walks along the sloping path in the mist.

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige II

Date

1859

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1324 × 1927 px

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