Jijigachaya Teahouse in Meguro from the Series 100 Views of Edo

Utagawa Hiroshige's final major series, *100 Views of Edo*, captures the city's landmarks and neighborhoods through a distinctive compositional method. This print employs extreme foreground elements—here, towering pines and a steep embankment—to frame distant vistas of Mount Fuji and the Meguro River plain. Hiroshige's layered perspective and bold use of Prussian blue create atmospheric depth while maintaining the flat, graphic character essential to woodblock printing. Completed in the year of the artist's death, the series represents the height of his technical refinement and established conventions for landscape representation that influenced Western artists decades later.