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Accordion Book of Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in Silk Boards Stations with Kyoka Poetry

Accordion Book of Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in Silk Boards Stations with Kyoka Poetry

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Accordion Book of Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in Silk Boards Stations with Kyoka Poetry

by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) [Woodblocks]

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Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Hiroshige's exquisite scenes of 19th-century Japan in a format that honors the Japanese bookmaking tradition.

No publishing information; we have not be able to locate any similar copies.

Printed on one side; 54 prints on heavy stock. Interior and prints without flaw. Minor wear to the corners of the silk boards. Oblong 10.5 by 8 inches; the prints measure 9.875 by 6.875 inches..

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 floating world'. The term originally referred to prints depicting urban pleasures - mostly idol portraits of popular Kabuki actors and courtesans - but it expanded in the 1880s to incorporate rural leisure and travel.

Hiroshige made some pictures of courtesans and actors, but it was landscape at which he excelled. These are revered for their technical intricacies - some include as many as 12 colours - and inventive viewpoints, but most of all for their impression of fleeting beauty: night snow and morning mist, for instance, the pink clouds of evening, bamboo bending in the wind.

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Title
Accordion Book of Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in Silk Boards Stations with Kyoka Poetry
Author
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) [Woodblocks]
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
No Dust Jacket As Issued
Quantity Available
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