Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. 45th Ed. Publisher / Skittledog Impassioned and richly layered

Impassioned and richly layered

Interpreting our world and inspiring us to do better

They often come with a sketch as an aide-mémoire or an injunction to himself as he worked in the studio

rainbows and clouds

- an angry wedding guest dresses in a white gown to upstage the bride

Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. 45th Ed. Publisher / Skittledog Impassioned and richly layeredA dazzling reprint of Hiroshige's views of Edo (modern day Tokyo), one of the masterpieces of the ukiyo e woodblock tradition and a paradigm of the Japonisme that inspired Impressionist, Post Impressionist and Art Nouveau artists, from Vincent van Gogh to James McNeill Whistler. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo e was a particular genre of