Nekozane at Horikiri Canal

Ando Hiroshige's woodblock print depicts the Horikiri Canal in Edo with characteristic compositional depth: Mount Fuji rises distantly across the water while yellow-roofed storehouses and green marshland dominate the foreground. A boatman poles through the shallow canal as figures move along the banks. Part of Hiroshige's *One Hundred Famous Views of Edo*, this print exemplifies the artist's mastery of perspective, atmospheric color gradation, and the landscape vocabulary that defined late Edo printmaking. The red cartouches contain the series title and print number, standard markers of this ambitious topographic project.