Tsukudajima from Eitai Bridge, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo

1858

Tsukudajima from Eitai Bridge, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo, 1858. Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858). Color woodblock print; sheet: 36.5 x 24.5 cm (14 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Harley C. Lee and Elizabeth K. Lee 1992.73 Moonlight casts a glow on the masts and ships lying at anchor, and stars dust the evening sky. Just behind the bridge pilings the fires used to attract fish to the surface snake their shadows across the waves.