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Hiroshige

Hiroshige

Baatsch, Henri-Alexis

Hardcover

Individual ArtistsJapanese Art

Publisher Price: $125.00

ISBN10: 0500030588
ISBN13: 9780500030585
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: Nov 11 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 7.30
Height: 1.70 Width: 11.50 Depth: 14.40
Language: English
From the author of Hokusai: A Life in Drawing comes an illuminating account of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), the last great artist of the ukiyo-e tradition. Ukiyo-e, meaning images of the floating world, was a ubiquitous genre of Japanese woodblock prints during Japan's Edo period, often depicting popular actors, sumo wrestlers, beautiful women, and majestic landscapes. Hiroshige's serene, atmospheric prints stood out from his predecessors, capturing the essence of the world around him, and eventually gained widespread acclaim in Europe and America, influencing western European artists like Manet, Monet, and Van Gogh.

This book offers a fascinating look at Hiroshige's life and work, tracing the journey of a fire warden who turned to printmaking later in life. It invites readers to follow in Hiroshige's footsteps through 19th-century Tokyo, discovering the iconic landscapes he immortalized while traveling the famed Tokaido and Kiso Kaido roads. This book features an exceptional selection of works accompanied by vivid text, drawing from Hiroshige's diaries, his talent for humorous poetry, taste for travel (with all its pleasures and challenges), and deep affinity for the natural world.

This volume makes accessible a deep understanding of Hiroshige's body of work, and transports readers to Edo, Japan via his timeless prints.

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