Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts on July 5, 2007 at 2:31 pm


The Brooklyn Museum has a very neat online exhibition of One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, a woodblock prints depicting life in the mid-19th century Tokyo, created by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858).

Definitely worth a look-see: Link - Thanks Mikolka!


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2 comments to "Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo."

  1. Oscar Zoroaster
    July 5th, 2007 at 5:44 pm

    Most people don’t know it but one Van Gogh’s big inspirations was Hiroshige. In fact the Impressionists were inspired by Japanese woodblock prints in general.

    “In 1887 van Gogh’s admiration for Japanese art forms led him to paint copies of two famous designs of Hiroshige, the great Japanese landscape printmaker. One print is the Bridge in the Rain and the other shows a Plum Tree in Bloom.” http://www.artelino.com/articles/van_gogh_japonisme.asp

  2. Joe Fisher
    July 6th, 2007 at 8:21 am

    I wasn’t going to get the iPhone, but I almost want to now just to have the opportunity to use one of these as my screen background.


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