Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
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notes
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e woodblock tradition, that came to characterize the Western world’s visual idea of Japan. This book is a reprint of Hiroshige’s ‘One Hundred Famous views of Edo’, which depicted various scenes of Tokyo through the seasons, from bustling shopping streets to splendid cherry orchards, forming a paradigm of the Japonisme that inspired Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Art Nouveau artists, from Vincent van Gogh to James McNeill Whistler.
Dimensions
19.5cm (7in) x 14cm (5.5in)
Features
notes
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e woodblock tradition, that came to characterize the Western world’s visual idea of Japan. This book is a reprint of Hiroshige’s ‘One Hundred Famous views of Edo’, which depicted various scenes of Tokyo through the seasons, from bustling shopping streets to splendid cherry orchards, forming a paradigm of the Japonisme that inspired Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Art Nouveau artists, from Vincent van Gogh to James McNeill Whistler.
Insights
This reprint is made from one of the finest complete original sets of woodblock prints belonging to the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo.
Details & Care
- Publisher: TASCHEN
- Hard cover
- Colour photography
- Number of pages: 584 pages
- ISBN: 9783836556590
- Multilingual edition
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