One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: New Year’s Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji

Utagawa Hiroshige · Woodblock print, ink and colour on paper; vertical ōban · Edo period, 9th month of 1857 (Ansei 4) · Tokyo National Museum

On New Year’s Eve, foxes gather at a great tree near Ōji, their fires glowing in the dark.

Exhibition: Hiroshige: New Perspectives on Edo Japan — Tokyo National Museum · –