Van Gogh’s Falling Leaves (Les Alyscamps), above (1888, © Kröller-Müller Museum), deliberately excludes the sky and places the row of poplars prominently in the foreground. His treatment of the avenue, making use of the straight vertical lines of the trunks, resembles a compositional approach favored by the ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Hiroshige, below, whose similar composition can be found in Yoshitsune ichidai zue (Illustrated Guide to the Life of Yoshitsune) (c. 1834–35, courtesy ColBase).
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