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 style and world of Japan's finest cultural flowering at the end of the shogunate.
- ISBN10 0807611433
- ISBN13 9780807611432
- Publish Date 17 April 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 February 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint George Braziller Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English