Woodblock Print by Hiroshige: Coastal View with Bridge

Pines lean over the water, umbrellas crowd the causeway, and everyone seems to be heading the same way.

Coastal View with Bridge is a woodblock print by Hiroshige, from Japan, made around 1845 in ink on paper. Hiroshige is best known for landscape series of famous places, and his views of strollers passing water and temples were widely printed. A causeway lined with twisted pines and stone lanterns runs across blue water to a cluster of pale-roofed buildings. A small arched bridge links it to the shore, and tiny figures carry umbrellas along the path. A peach sky glows above, with the signature, a red seal and a title cartouche in the margins. It is 14.3 inches wide and 9.7 high.

Even the pines appear to have come for the view.