(H/B) HIROSHIGE

Παρουσίαση

In the second month of 1856, the sensors approved five prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) with the series title One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei). And so began the story of one of the most famous landscape series in the history of Japanese wood-block printing. While the city of Edo, renamed Tokyo in 1868, had already been chosen as the subject of numerous paintings, printed books and other woodcut series, there had never been a series with so many views as was promised in the title of this one. The promise was more than kept: by the time of the appearance of the final pictures in the tenth month of 1858, a total of 120 individual prints, issued in instalments, did indeed constitute the most comprehensive topographical series among ukiyo-e, "pictures of the floating, fleeting world". (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)