View of the Kanda Water Supply Flowing through Yamabuki (Kerria) Village in Mejiroshita

View of the Kanda Water Supply Flowing through Yamabuki (Kerria) Village in Mejiroshita is a landscape print by Utagawa Hiroshige produced around 1857 and held in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The composition shows the upper reaches of the Kanda josui, the aqueduct system that delivered fresh water to Edo from the western suburbs. Hiroshige sets the scene below Mejiro, in the small rural settlement of Yamabuki, named for the yellow-blossomed kerria roses that grew along the embankments. Travelers and farmers move along the path beside the water, while the bright yellow flowers form a horizontal accent across the composition. The design belongs squarely to the meisho-e tradition of Edo ukiyo-e, where natural features and engineered landscapes were treated with equal seriousness. By foregrounding the kerria, Hiroshige integrates botanical and seasonal interest into the print and links Mejiroshita to a familiar literary motif from Japanese poetry. As with his other late landscape print designs, careful bokashi gradients render the sky and the embankment, while detailed line work captures the structure of buildings and the postures of figures. The Victoria and Albert Museum impression demonstrates the technical sophistication of mid-1850s Edo ukiyo-e publishing, with multiple color blocks creating a refined surface that has aged remarkably well. Coming near the end of Hiroshige's career, the design participates in the same exploration of Edo's outskirts that produced One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, and it offers modern viewers a glimpse of a long-vanished agricultural landscape that once edged the metropolis. As a landscape print it is a quiet but expert example of how the late Edo period transformed routine infrastructure into pictorial subject matter.