Hiroshige in Tokyo

Hiroshige in Tokyo
Author: Julian Bicknell
Publisher: Pomegranate
Total Pages: 157
Release: 1994
Genre: Japan
ISBN: 9781566408035

Hiroshige's Japan

Hiroshige's Japan
Author: Philippe Delord
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2025-06-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780804858809

"Presented alongside Hiroshige's prints, with descriptions and context, Delord's work offers an absorbing contemplation of Japan's past and present via one legendary travel route, and shows how thoroughly upended our surroundings have been in what was, in wider perspective, only a short time." -- The New York Times Journey along the famed Tokaido Road--an ancient thoroughfare with a modern twist. The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido is the best-known work of the great 19th century Japanese woodblock artist Utagawa Hiroshige. The series of 53 masterful woodblock prints depicts stops along the ancient Tokaido Road--which, from the eleventh to the nineteenth century, was the main thoroughfare between Tokyo and Kyoto. Though the road itself is now submerged under Japan's twenty-first-century urban landscape, French artist Philippe Delord set out to see if he could find the original locations, with just a moped, sketchbook, watercolors and a book of Hiroshige's prints. Hiroshige's Japan allows readers to make the journey alongside Delord, venturing from Tokyo and Mount Fuji to mountain passes and rugged coastlines. Inside are all 53 original scenery prints made by Hiroshige, alongside their modern-day equivalent by Delord. A lively commentary about his experiences as he tries to locate each of the 53 scenes (without speaking Japanese!) offers readers an insightful, and often humorous, look into both modern and historical Japan. Part travelogue, part work of art, this book is sure to delight armchair travelers, history buffs, art enthusiasts and Japanophiles alike!

Hiroshige Prints

Hiroshige Prints
Author: Ando Hiroshige
Publisher: Dover Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1988
Genre: Color prints, Japanese
ISBN: 9780486256443

Exquisite depictions of romantically idealized landscapes from woodcut master's superb Fifty-three Stages on the Tokaido. Reproduced from the Collection of the Elvehjem Museum of Art. Includes The Bridge on the Toyo River, The Ferryboat at Rokugo, The Junction of the Pilgrims' Road and Mt. Fuji in the Morning from Hara.

Rediscovering the Old Tokaido

Rediscovering the Old Tokaido
Author: Patrick Carey
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004214046

For the first time in an English language edition published outside Japan, all 55 prints of Hiroshige’s ‘Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido’ are reproduced in full colour, supporting a detailed and intriguing account of the author's rediscovery on foot of the historic 303-mile road from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Remarkably, the Old Tokaido can still be found in many locations and photographs of the modern parallel the old.

Cent Vues Célèbres D'Edo

Cent Vues Célèbres D'Edo
Author: Melanie Trede
Publisher: Taschen America Llc
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2015
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783836556590

A dazzling reprint of Hiroshige's views of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), one of the masterpieces of the ukiyo-e woodblock tradition and a paradigm of the Japonisme that inspired Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Art Nouveau artists, from Vincent van Gogh to James McNeill Whistler.

Hiroshige

Hiroshige
Author: Katie Burke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Color prints, Japanese
ISBN: 9780764916205

Tokyo

Tokyo
Author: Lena Fritsch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781910807392

This beautifully designed book is a celebration of one of the world's most creative, dynamic and fascinating cities: Tokyo. It spans 400 years, with highlights including Kano school paintings; the iconic woodblock prints of Hiroshige; Tokyo Pop Art posters; the photography of Moriyama Daido and Ninagawa Mika; manga; film; and contemporary art by Murakami Takashi and Aida Makoto. Visually bold and richly detailed, this publication looks at a city which has undergone constant destruction and renewal and it tells the stories of the people who have made Tokyo so famous with their insatiable appetite for the new and innovative - from the samurai to avantgarde artists today. Co-edited by Japanese art specialists and curators Lena Fritsch and Clare Pollard from Oxford University, this accessible volume features 28 texts by international experts of Japanese culture, as well as original statements by influential artists.

Hiroshige - Landscape, Cityscape

Hiroshige - Landscape, Cityscape
Author: Moyra Clare Pollard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Block printing
ISBN: 9781854442956

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) is one of the best known of all Japanese woodblock print designers. He is particularly renowned for his landscape prints, which are among the most frequently reproduced of all Japanese works of art. Hiroshige's landscape prints were hugely successful both in Japan and in the West. Their unusual compositions, humorous depictions of people involved in everyday activities and masterly expression of weather, light and seasons, proved enormously influential on many leading European artists. Aimed at a general audience, this book illustrates and discusses 53 Hiroshige landscape prints in the Ashmolean Museum's collection and explores their historical background. It gives a concise introduction to Hiroshige's life and career within the context of Japan's booming nineteenth-century woodblock print industry and explores the development of the landscape print as a new genre in this period. It also discusses and illustrates the process and techniques of traditional Japanese woodblock print-making. Contents: How to 'read' a Japanese Print, Preface, Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) Woodblock Print Designer, Making a Japanese Woodblock Print, I Views along the Tokaido, II Views of the Provinces, III Views of Edo, IV Views of Mount Fuji, Further Reading.

Hokusai and Hiroshige

Hokusai and Hiroshige
Author: Julia M. White
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780295977669

Reproduces 200 prints by the most important and prolific Japanese artists of the 19th century.