Utagawa Hiroshige
歌川広重 (Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797–1858) — the artist who made rain beautiful. His Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō transformed travel prints from souvenirs into art, and his ability to capture mood — the blue of a winter evening, the grey weight of a downpour — influenced Monet and Van Gogh more directly than most Western masters ever admitted.
