Utagawa Hiroshige

The Production date: 1834-1856 (Kaei 6-Ansei 3)
Publisher: Echi-Hei (Echizen-ya Heizaburou)

Hiroshige chose “The Gate of Iwaya (sea cave)” of Enoshima Island as the representative landscape of Sagami province in the series “Sixty Views of Famous Places” that introduced the nation-wide famous places. As this series, many of Hiroshige’s works produced in his late year of his career during 1844 to 1858, when he was forty-eight to sixty-two, he produced many works in vertical prints. He was searching for new compositions of space that cannot be achieved by the expressions in horizontal prints at the end of his career.