Which ukiyo-e artist created the print Plum Estate, Kameido?

Utagawa Hiroshige created the ukiyo-e print Plum Estate, Kameido.

The print is part of Hiroshige’s series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, published between 1856 and 1859. It shows flowering plum trees at Kameido, with a massive twisting trunk and branches cropped dramatically in the foreground. A distant view appears through the gaps in the tree, creating an unusual sense of depth.

The design became especially influential in Europe after it was seen by artists and collectors. Vincent van Gogh made a painted copy of the composition in 1887, helping demonstrate how Japanese prints affected European artists’ approaches to cropping, flat color, and unconventional viewpoints.

Plum Estate, Kameido is sometimes confused with Hiroshige’s better-known Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi bridge and Atake, which belongs to the same series. Both prints use bold framing and atmospheric landscape effects, but they depict different Edo locations.