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Smith, Henry D.,Hiroshige, Ando
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Published by George Braziller Inc., 2000
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- Title
- Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Author
- Smith, Henry D.,Hiroshige, Ando
- Publisher
- George Braziller Inc.
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807611433
- ISBN 13
- 9780807611432
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.
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About the Author
Henry D. Smith II is professor of Japanes history at Columbia University, New York. He is the author of Hokusai: One Hundred Famous Views of Mt. Fuji.
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