The Kiso Mountains in Snow
Original title
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- JP66
- Credit
- Rogers Fund, 1914
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1858. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- A three-sheet panorama of a deep mountain gorge buried in snow. White cliffs and pines crowd together, a dark blue river winds along the bottom, and a few tiny houses and a bridge are tucked into the drifts.
- Image
- 1600 × 787
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009004
coldlibrary.com/g/009004 - Credit line
- Utagawa Hiroshige, The Kiso Mountains in Snow, 1857. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009004
Late in his career Hiroshige designed three triptychs on the classical triad of snow, moon and flowers; this is the snow. The Kiso road was the inland route between Edo and Kyoto, higher and slower than the coastal Tōkaidō. The scale is the point: people and houses are nearly lost, and the mountains are allowed to be enormous and quiet.
