Product Description

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of midnineteenth century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art. The sereies, reproduced from an exceptionally fine, first-edition set in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, contains many of Hiroshige's best-loved and most extraordinary prints. Each plate is accompanied by a commentary that discusses its artistic and cultural interest in detail. A celebration of the style and world of Japan's finest cultural flowering at the end of the shogunate.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #329515 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Review
"Henry Smith skillfully and sensitively describes the images... and offers rewarding insights on the interchange between the larger tradition of the Japanese woodblock and Hiroshige's singular creative talent" Art in America

About the Author
Henry D. Smith II is professor of Japanes history at Columbia University, New York. He is the author of Hokusai: One Hundred Famous Views of Mt. Fuji.

Customer Reviews

Beautiful
The best reproductions and presentation of the One Hundred Views I have seen. Every print is presented using the whole of one large (almost A3 size) page, while the opposite page has a detailed description of the piece, its location and season etc, as well as criticism. Very good quality printing and paper. Worth it.