The City Flourishing, Tanabata Festival, No. 73 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando) (Japanese, 1797-1858)Original Source: Brooklyn Museum collection
'Although this is the only print in the series that does not specify a place in the title, it represents the view from a very specific, very personal place: Hiroshige's own house.'
Kinryuzan Temple, Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryuzan), No. 99 from One Hundred Famous View of Edo, 7th month of 1856. by Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando) (Japanese, 1797-1858)Original Source: Brooklyn Museum collection
'As with all popular temples in Hiroshige's time, the Asakusa Kannon Temple was also a major entertainment center.'
Armor-Hanging Pine, Hakkeisaka, No. 26 in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando) (Japanese, 1797-1858).Original Source: Brooklyn Museum collection
'By Hiroshige's time, the tree would have been about eight hundred years old.'
Hatsune Riding Grounds, Bakuro-cho, No. 6 in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando) (Japanese, 1797-1858)Original Source: Brooklyn Museum collection
'Hiroshige emphasizes the cloth's materiality by embossing a textured weave pattern on the surface of the white bolt.'
Seido and Kanda River From Shohei Bridge, No. 47 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando) (Japanese, 1797-1858)Original Source: Brooklyn Museum collection
'Here Hiroshige represents the steady slanting sort of rain typical of the June "plum rain"--named for the fruit that appears then--a pleasant sea of dull skies and rich greens that the print perfectly captures.'
Ayase River and Kanegafuchi, No. 63 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando) (Japanese, 1797-1858)Original Source: Brooklyn Museum collection
'Hiroshige has framed the view with one of the trees in full bloom.'
Nakagawa River Mouth, No. 70 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando) (Japanese, 1797-1858)Original Source: Brooklyn Museum collection
'By Hiroshige's time, however, after more than two centuries of peace, the inspection procedure was a mere formality.'
Evening Snow, Kambara, from the series the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Hoeido edition) (ca.1833) by Utagawa HiroshigeNakagawa-machi bato hiroshige art of museum
'In creating this series, Hiroshige incorporated the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and wind, rain, snow and other weather into the scenery to produce a richly diverse work.'
39th Station, Chiryu Horse Fair, from Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (1831/1834) by Utagawa Hiroshige IReading Public Museum
'Appropriately, Hiroshige entitled this print Summer Horse Market, in which he depicts horses for sale tied to posts in the foreground.'
Yase no Sato (Village at Yase) (1835) by Utagawa HiroshigeMarsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park, National Park Service
'This print is part of Hiroshige's series "Famous Views of Kyoto".'
Woodcut (1835/1840) by Utagawa HiroshigeMuseum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm
'Station 48: Okute, from The 69 stations of the Kisokaido highway(Kisokaido rokujukyu-tsugi no uchi)Polychrome woodblock-print on paper, late 1830sUtagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858).'
36 Views of Mt. Fuji, Musashi-koshigaya-zai (1858 - 1858) by Hiroshige UTAGAWASaitama Prefectual Museum of History and Folklore
'Fuji sanjurokkei"" is 36 sheets of Fuji landscape of woodcuts by Utagawa Hiroshige drew.'
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