Color woodcut; dimensions: 22 x 16 cm (pp light); publisher: Tsutaya Kichizo. Hiroshige II Utagawa was a woodcut artist best known for continuing the tradition of Hiroshige I Utagawa in creating landscape prints.
He appears to have married Hiroshige's daughter, Otatsu, and inherited Hiroshige's surname after Hiroshige's death in 1858. In 1865, after the dissolution of his marriage, he moved from Edo to Yokohama and began using the name Kisai Rissho. His works were often confused with those of Hiroshige I because they closely resembled them in style, subject matter and even signature, especially in series such as "One Hundred Famous Views in Various Provinces" (1859-61), a reference to his master's "Famous Views of Sixty Several Provinces" (1853-1856).
