Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo

text by Melanie Trede and Lorenz Bichler

One of the most famous landscape series in the history of Japanese woodblock printing, Utagawa Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo, created in the mid-19th century, depicts the temples and shrines, busy streets, public parks, canals and bridges, and pure landscapes of the city later named Tokyo. Hiroshige’s prints, immensely popular in Japan in their own day, influenced Western artists such as Whistler and Van Gogh, and became practically synonymous with the Western world’s visual characterization of Japan.

This stunning reprint of Hiroshige’s great work is made from the series in the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo, one of the few complete series consisting entirely of impressions from the first printing. The reprint captures both the subtle atmospheres of Hiroshige’s landscapes and street scenes and his remarkable use of color. All of the prints are reproduced in full-size plates accompanied by an illuminating introduction and commentary. The prints and text are fastened with a sewn binding and held in an exquisite box with tab closure. 

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