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Plum Garden at Kameido by Utagawa Hiroshige
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Plum Garden at Kameido, 1857

Utagawa Hiroshige

Ink on paper

A gnarled plum branch cuts boldly across a soft pink orchard beyond.

A vivid green sky glows behind the dark trunk of a blossoming plum tree, its branches slicing boldly across the foreground. Hiroshige's radical framing — nature pressed right up to the viewer — enchanted the Impressionists and still feels strikingly graphic.

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