Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

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.