Matsuchiyama on the Sumida River

Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858)

Edo period, 1856

Medium

Hanging scroll; Ink and color on silk

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

40.5 × 58.8 cm (16 × 23 3/16 in.)

Culture

Japan

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia

Credit line

Frederick W. Gookin Collection

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Ukiyo-e: pictures of the floating world
• Paintings
• Rivers and lakes
• 1800s
• Japan
• Orange