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Plain at Suzaki Fukagawa

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

Plain at Suzaki Fukagawa
Ando Hiroshige's woodblock print depicts an eagle in flight over an expansive marshland, with Mount Fuji visible on the distant horizon. The composition employs a dramatic diagonal perspective that places the bird's powerful form in sharp contrast to the ordered landscape below—reed fields, water channels, and scattered structures rendered in fine linear detail. Part of the series *One Hundred Views of Edo*, this print exemplifies the bird's-eye viewpoint and sophisticated use of negative space characteristic of mid-nineteenth-century Japanese landscape prints. Hiroshige's innovative spatial arrangements and attention to atmospheric effects influenced Western artists and shaped modern visual composition.

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