Hiroshige
I love the quiet atmosphere of this woodcut. This is how I imagine a peaceful night at the seacoast.
This view in Edo Bay is one of only a few prints in this series in which Hiroshige portrayed a starlit sky. The fishing boats have come from Tsukudajima Island, which you can see in the moonlight. In this area the fishermen employed by the shogun were catching tiny translucent fish, shirauo (white fish), whose bland taste was favored by the shogun himself.
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