Cartão De Festividades Merrymaking beneath Maple Trees, Hiroshige

Merrymaking beneath Maple Trees at Tsuten Kyo. From the series: Views of Kyoto - 10. Print shows people sitting under maple trees by a stream. Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Japanese painter and printmaker, known especially for his landscape prints. The last great figure of the Ukiyo-e, or popular, school of printmaking, he transmuted everyday landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes that made him even more successful than his contemporary, Hokusai.