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Utagawa Hiroshige

Soga brothers bid farewell to the summer grasses, from the series "Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)"

c. 1843/47
Color woodblock print; oban
35.2 × 24.7 cm (13.9 × 9.7 in)

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