Mount Fuji in the Evening from the Sumida River Embankment (Sumida tsutsumi no yū Fuji)

Mount Fuji in the Evening from the Sumida River Embankment (Sumida tsutsumi no yū Fuji), dated 1843 in the records of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is one of Utagawa Kuniyoshi's contributions to the Edo ukiyo-e tradition of views combining the city's most familiar landmark, Mount Fuji, with a particular Edo vantage point along the Sumida River. The Sumida embankment had been celebrated for centuries as a place for cherry-blossom viewing and seasonal walks, and from its elevated path the silhouette of Fuji could be seen across the rooftops of the city to the west, especially at sunset. Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), known above all for warrior prints, was also a careful designer of Edo landscapes, and the 1843 date situates the sheet at a moment when the Tenpō reforms had restricted certain print subjects, encouraging publishers to commission landscape views. The combination of Fuji and a famous Edo location places the work within the broader meisho-e tradition that Hiroshige had brought to such prominence, while Kuniyoshi's own sensibility brings an Utagawa-school taste for clear figural drama and structured composition into the landscape format. Trained under Utagawa Toyokuni I, Kuniyoshi developed across his career a body of work that included both his celebrated warrior prints and a substantial run of Edo cityscapes, of which this Sumida sheet is one. The Victoria and Albert Museum's catalogue records the title, date and Kuniyoshi attribution, and the description here follows that record, presenting the work as a representative Edo ukiyo-e view of Fuji from a celebrated city embankment.