Sunset Glow at Seta (Seta sekishō), from an untitled series of Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei)

This 1854 woodblock print (nishiki-e) by Utagawa Fusatane, held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (object 253664), belongs to the untitled series of Eight Views of Lake Biwa (Ōmi hakkei) and depicts Sunset Glow at Seta (Seta sekishō), another of the eight canonical subjects of the Lake Biwa set. Seta no Karahashi, the great wooden bridge at Seta where the Seta River drains the southern end of Lake Biwa, was among the most painted bridge subjects in Japanese landscape art, celebrated since the medieval period for its long arched form and its strategic importance on the route between Kyoto and the east. Fusatane's print shows the bridge under the warm light of evening, with boats on the river and travellers crossing in silhouette, in the Hiroshige tradition of meisho-e (famous-place pictures) that gave the Eight Views of Ōmi its definitive ukiyo-e form. The print is in standard ōban single-sheet format. It is preserved in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's collection of Japanese prints, one of the foundational North American holdings of late Edo and Meiji-era ukiyo-e.