Hiroshige: Visions of Japan

Drawn from the Norton Simon Museum’s extensive collection of Japanese woodblock prints, Hiroshige: Visions of Japan features approximately 150 prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), one of the greatest and most prolific artists of his time. Highlights of the exhibition include more than twenty Bird and Flower prints, delightful works of flora and fauna created in the 1830s such as Hawk on a Pine Branch and Kingfisher with Iris. Hiroshige’s early masterpiece, The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, will also be exhibited, as well as the famous series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, created in 1858, only a few months before his death from cholera at the age of 62.