A visual journey through nineteenth-century Tokyo: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige stands as one of the greatest achievements in Japanese printmaking — and this volume brings its full splendour to life with scholarly depth and remarkable accessibility.
First published in 1820, the series depicts 118 locations across Edo — present-day Tōkyō — across the four seasons and from often unexpected vantage points. Edited by Andreas Marks, Director of the Clark Center for Japanese Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the world's foremost authority on Japanese woodblock prints, this work draws on the study of more than 4,700 pieces from 32 museums and private collections worldwide.
Featuring 700 colour illustrations and a map pinpointing the exact location of each view, this book works equally well as a reference tool and a collector's object. It presents for the first time a complete collection of the early luxury prints, in a generous format that does full justice to the visual richness of the originals.