Twilight Hill at Meguro in the Eastern Capital, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji
- Date:
- early 20th century
- Medium:
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
This early twentieth-century woodblock print by Andō Hiroshige IV, held by the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, belongs to a continuation of the celebrated Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fuji Sanjūrokkei), a series originally conceived by Hiroshige I in 1858 as a self-conscious echo of Hokusai's famous earlier sequence. The print depicts Twilight Hill (Yūhi-no-oka) at Meguro, in the southwestern part of Tokyo (the former Edo, here referred to in the series title as the Eastern Capital, Tōto), with Mt. Fuji rising in the far distance against a softly tinted evening sky. Meguro was already a celebrated meisho (famous place) by the late Edo period, and the elevated terrain near Yūhi-no-oka afforded one of the best surviving views of Mt. Fuji from within the expanding Tokyo metropolis. Hiroshige IV's treatment preserves the lyrical compositional restraint of his great-great-predecessor: the foreground hill, the descending middle ground, and the distant volcanic profile are arranged in receding horizontal bands, with figures and architectural elements scaled to emphasize the topographic recession rather than dramatic perspective. The Chazen catalogue dates the work to the early twentieth century, consistent with Hiroshige IV's documented activity in the 1910s and early 1920s and with his project of revisiting and reissuing the canonical Hiroshige landscape subjects for a Taishō-era audience increasingly interested in nostalgic views of an Edo and early Meiji Japan being rapidly displaced by modern urban transformation.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
c. 1830/35
Color woodblock print; oban
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Twilight Hill at Meguro in the Eastern Capital, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji was created by Andō Hiroshige IV (安藤広重四代) in early 20th century.
Twilight Hill at Meguro in the Eastern Capital, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji depicts mount fuji.
