Tuesday, September 26, 2023
4:30 pm
Naylor Auditorium, Gailor Hall
Some of Utagawa Hiroshige’s designs in his series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo are among the best-known woodblock prints and have been cherished since their inception in the 1850s. Hiroshige captured 118 different scenes in the metropolis of Edo, today’s Tokyo, and sourced his ideas from illustrations in previously published books.
The views were issued as luxury versions, incorporating many special printing features like color gradation. During the course of production, changes were made to some of the designs. Focussing on the One Hundred Views, this talk will look into the complexity and mechanics of the popular print market in Japan in the 19th century.
