Japan's Edo period (1615-1868) was a time of peace and prosperity. A middle class arose, became wealthy, and cultivated a love of woodblock prints. Early on, a tradition of depicting beautiful women developed, but in the nineteenth century, artists turned to making landscape prints.
This address book presents forty of Hiroshige's works from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. All reproductions derive from Hiroshige's extraordinary series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo – a strong influence on impressionists and postimpressionists in the West, and a work that has lost none of its power to delight the eye. Pomegranate's deluxe address books are hardbound with a hidden spiral binding that allows them to lie absolutely flat.
Contains 40 full-colour reproductions of woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige. With pleanty of space for recording all of your contacts’ details, this is a beautiful way to keep your life organised!
