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Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

by Henry D. Smith

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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 show more style and world of Japan's finest cultural flowering at the end of the shogunate. show less

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People/Characters: Utagawa Hiroshige
Important places: Edo, Japan

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Genres: Art & Design, Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 769.924 — Arts & recreation Printmaking & prints Prints History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
LCC: NE1325 .A5 .A4 — Fine Arts 218-(330) Engraved portraits. Self-portraits Print media Wood engraving Japanese prints
BISAC: ART ART Asian Japanese

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Languages: English, German
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ISBNs: 4
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Published: 1986
Genres: Art & Design, Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 769.924
LCC: NE1325 .A5 .A4

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