Accordion Book of Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in Silk Boards Stations with Kyoka Poetry
Utagawa Hiroshige was one of Japan’s finest colour woodblock-print artists. In the 19th century, his supremely evocative landscapes were produced in their thousands, and profoundly influenced modern art in the west, particularly the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Hiroshige was a master of the genre of ukiyo-e — literally ‘images of the.....