Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Japanese binding in box, 9.8 x 12.3 in., 4.12 lb, 272 pages
US$ 40
From verdant panoramas to decadent pleasure quarters: Utagawa Hiroshige’s final masterpiece, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, is a woodblock journey through 19th-century Tokyo and a jewel in the ukiyo-e tradition. This reprint is bound in the traditional Japanese fashion and reproduces one of the finest complete original sets belonging to the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo.
Views of 19th-Century Tokyo
Images of a city between visual poetry and idealized reality
“This luxurious Japanese-bound, boxed publication transcends the coffee table cliché by combining beauty with information.”—ARTnews Magazine, New York
Literally meaning “pictures of the floating world,” ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese woodblock print genre that originated in the 17th century and is practically synonymous with the Western world’s visual characterization of Japan. Because they could be mass produced, ukiyo-e works were often used as designs for fans, New Year’s greeting cards, single prints, and book illustrations, and traditionally they depicted city life, entertainment, beautiful women, kabuki actors, and landscapes. The influence of ukiyo-e in Europe and the United States, often referred to as Japonisme, can be seen in everything from impressionist painting to today’s manga and anime illustration. 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.
Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Though he captured a variety of subjects, his greatest talent was in creating landscapes of his native Edo (modern-day Tokyo) and his final masterpiece was a series known as “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” (1856–1858). This resplendent complete reprint pairs each of the 120 large-scale illustrations with a description, allowing readers to plunge themselves into Hiroshige’s beautifully vibrant landscapes.
Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Japanese binding in box, 9.8 x 12.3 in., 4.12 lb, 272 pages
ISBN 978-3-8365-2120-8
Edition: English
Edition: English
ISBN 978-3-8365-2146-8
Edition: French
Edition: French