This exhibition presents ukiyo-e by Hiroshige II (Shigenobu), who was the disciple of the first Utagawa Hiroshige. Hiroshige II was active particularly from the waning years of the shogunate to the Meiji era. In his later years, he called himself “Kisai Rissho.” While clearly carrying on the style of the first Hiroshige, his works show his own mode of expression, and his subjects became more varied in the Rissho period. One of his masterpieces is The Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou “Fujisawa” (the picture on the front page of this leaflet), which portrays the Yotsuya Rest Area very close to the Fujisawa Ukiyo-e Museum. Visitors can learn about the Hiroshige school, which formed one of the major currents in ukiyo-e landscape painting, and come in touch with the tumultuous times and the changes in this genre.