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Hokusai : One hundred views of Mt. Fuji
Katsushika, Hokusai 1760-1849 ; introduction and commentaries on the plates by Henry Smith.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 'Reproduced from the illustrated book Fugaku Meiji by Hokusai in the Mitchell Collection, The New York Public Library.'--T.p. verso. 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. First UK edition, first printing. Brown cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now i…n a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
Hiroshige, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo:
Preface by Arnold Lehman; Introduction by Henry Smith; Essay by Amy Poster; Plates and Commentaries by Henry Smith.
Language: English
Published by George Braziller, for the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, New York, 1986
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 256 pp. Reproduced from the series of prints in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. LCC: 862257.
One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji
Hokusai / introduction and commentaries on the plates by Henry D. Smith II
Published by George Braziller, 1988, 1988
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Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers
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More imagesHIROSHIGE: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Smith II, Henry D. (introductory essay and commentaries on the plates); Poster, Amy G. (introductory essay); Arnold L. Lehman (preface)
Language: English
Published by George Braziller, Inc., New York Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2007
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- First Edition
Seller: Jorge Welsh Books, Lisboa, PortugalJorge Welsh Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 25.5 x 37 cm.; ; 2.1 kg.; 256 pages with 119 color plates.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket shows edge wear, several wear marks, scuffs and scratches on the front cover, spine and bac…k cover. The top and bottom of the spine is scuffed and slightly chipped, tear at the top right side of the back cover. Interior with minor signs of wear.; This edition of One Hundred Famous Views of Edo uses an original typeface designed by Alpha Omega especially for this book. The typeface is called Hiroshige, in honor of the artist of this series. The type is designed to create an active interplay between the text and the full-page illustrations, with an Asian, calligraphic flair.; Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art. The series, reproduced here in its entirety for the first time in a Western edition, contains many of Hiroshige's best-loved and most extraordinary prints. It is a celebration of the style and world of Japan's finest cultural flowering at the end of the shogunate. Like Venice and Florence in the 14th and 15th centuries, or Paris in the age of the Impressionists, the city of Edo, with its superb landmarks and its festive display of a uniquely elegant urban life, exerts a special and compelling fascination. Hiroshige, perhaps the most brilliant of the ukiyo-e printmakers, revealed the panorama of his city's activities with subtle and vivid visual anecdotes: fireworks seen from the river, fashionable geishas on parade, the kabuki district at night, intimate moments in the gardens and teahouses. But more than a historical document, the views are really vignettes presented from a remarkable variety of vantage points-aerial perspectives, multiple viewpoints, framed repoussoirs - and incorporate the natural beauty and atmospheric effects of every season crisp autumn moonlight, cherry blossoms and irises in the spring, summer rain on the waterways, and temples in the winter snow. It is a tour de force of artistic vision and printmaking craftsmanship that epitomizes the inventiveness of ukiyo-e art. This volume is printed in Japan and has been reproduced from an exceptionally fine, first-edition set in the Brooklyn Museum of Art to insure maximum fidelity to the original prints. The set is completed by a supplementary design and table of contents. In his introduction, Henry D. Smith II explains the world of Edo in its twilight before the Meiji Restoration and the beginnings of a modem urban society. Each plate is accompanied by a commentary that discusses its artistic and cultural interest in detail. For anyone interested in Japan, the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is perhaps the finest guide and one of the greatest legacies Imaginable.
