Japanese Art: Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo - Yoroi Ferry: Fine Art Print

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Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Yoroi Ferry, Koami-cho , 1857 Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) Fine Art Reproduction Full Size Reproduction: 15 x 10 inches This reproduction is a new, individually printed and proofed , superior quality, giclee* process, fine art print. It is printed on 100% cotton rag acid-free, heavyweight fine art paper with a luxurious textured watercolor paper finish and archival pigment inks to ensure permanence. Created for collectors, it IS NOT A POSTER or mass produced print on low quality, inexpensive paper . Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo , 1856-1858, was composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo. It remains one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art and is a celebration of the style and world of Japan's finest cultural flowering. Like Venice and Florence in Renaissance Italy, Edo (modern day Tokyo), was the cultural center of Japan. Visually, Hiroshige’s woodcuts may be taken as a travelogue of mid-ninetieth century Japan that predates the invention of color photography. In essence, that is what the series presents – a color saturated panorama of daily life in Tokyo and its outlying districts with its firework displays, geishas on parade, teahouses and the city’s fashionable commercial and scenic districts. The woodcuts were all of uniform size, approximately 15 x 10 inches (oban tateye format). Hiroshige’s signature – Hiroshige-ga, appears is the vertical cartouche on red background in the lower left hand part of each print. The vertical cartouche, also on red background, in the upper right section is the series title (Meiso Edo hyakkei) and the smaller square in multiple colors bears the name of the individual print. The publisher often left his seal in a vertical cartouche in the lower left hand margin. The censor’s seals are those in the upper right margin. Yoroi Ferry, Koami-cho – 1857 Hiroshige portrays the Yoroi (“Armor”) Ferry carrying a load of passengers in the distance across the Nihonbashi river while a stylish young woman in a colorful dress looks on. Ando Hiroshige was the foremost woodblock artist of his day specializing in scenes of birds, fish, flowers and landscapes. His bird and flower prints defined the kacho-e school of landscape scenes within the larger ukiyo-e genre of portraits of courtesans, actors and scenes from everyday life. During a forty year career Hiroshige produced thousands of kacho-e designs. Many also include short descriptive poems (haiku) by collaborating popular poets. Japanese woodblock prints were treasured by their original owners and collected in albums to be viewed and appreciated at leisure. Often, these prints were backed with inexpensive paper mounts rather than costlier silk and displayed as scroll paintings on the walls of Japanese homes. Known as kakemono-e , these affordable scroll paintings became a common decoration for Japan ’s growing middle class in the 19 th century. Original Medium: Woodcut with colors on paper. Reproduction Medium – Textured, Fine Art Paper and colored pigment inks Image Size : Actual - 15 x 10 inches (printed on larger 17 x 13 inch paper to allow ample borders for matting and framing) About Our Prints The brilliant colors and fine line detail of our reproductions offer the best quality for price performance available online or in shops today . We guarantee that you will be pleased with the superior quality of our prints and encourage you to review our detailed feedback profile comments from past buyers: “Gorgeous, superior quality prints.” “ Definitely the best print I have ever bought on Ebay ” “Its beautiful! Great addition to my collection.” I invite you to view the other superior quality prints I also have on sale in my eBay Store, Da Vinci Art Prints or by Please email me with any question... read more

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