Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo prints : Hiroshige Utagawa music : dova-s.jp - 日本の江戸時代の浮世絵師、歌川広重の代表作。春夏秋冬に分けられ、幕末の江戸の名所や、江戸に暮らす人々を描いた浮世絵風景画の連作。広重晩年の作品で、死の直前まで制作に取り組んでいた。大胆な構図が特徴的で、画家のゴッホが作品の一部を模写していたことでも知られる。
Oh dear Little Art Museum! What a wonderful selection of Edo prints! I have Mikhail Uspensky's book, and so I am familiar with all of these prints, but as no two woodblock prints, even from the same edition, are, by their nature, ever absolutely identical (especially in regard to "bokashi" and "tem-bokashi" effects!), this was just a pure delight! "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" was my first exposure to Hiroshige, and Ukio-e in general, but I've been "drinking the Kool-Aid" ever since! If I'm not mistaken, this is a "mixed" set of prints, and I like it all the better for that! I especially enjoyed the wood grain being especially visible in your set of prints, which is not always the case in many print sources... I suspect that you probably already have a "53 Stations of the Tokaido" series, and I would also love to see a "69 Stations of the Kiso-Kaido" (with Hiroshige and Eisen!), but all your posts are absolutely gorgeous, and the Impressionism posts are also dazzling! Thanks so very much for all you do! -- Namaste "LAM," Glenn Jones (USA)
