Name: Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival 1857
SKU: 381457

THE PRINT

While Hiroshige was very prolific and made prints on a range of subjects, it is his landscapes, particularly those of his series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, that had the most impact. Hiroshige interpreted famous sites through the lens of everyday experience, rather than literary, historical or imperial significance, giving his prints a mass appeal and allowing the Japanese public to feel emotionally involved with their native landscape. This artwork offers a view from the second story of a Yoshiwara brothel over the Asakusa Ricefields, toward a dense procession of visitors to the Torinomachi Festival, held at Washi Daimyojin Shrine. In the foreground sits an exquisitely detailed cat. This premium quality giclee art print has been produced on luxurious 100% cotton rag textured art paper using archival quality inks resulting in a superior print suitable for museum or gallery display.

Gallery quality giclée art print
300gsm 100% cotton rag textured art paper
Natural white with a matte finish
Archival inks for vivid colour and sharp detail
Available in multiple sizes
Can be purchased framed or unframed

THE ARTIST

Utagawa Hiroshige is known as the last great master in Japanese traditional woodblock printing, imbuing the Japanese landscape with a lyricism that drew upon the fleeting nature of sensual pleasure. Hiroshige's prints memorialised everyday life in the late Edo period, in which travel and entertainment became more widely available to the middle-class, and presented a vision of the country in which the changing of the seasons, and the associated festivities, were central. This vision of Japan, heightened by Hiroshige's lush colours and unconventional approach to composition, had widespread appeal within Japan and abroad, with European artists adopting both his bright colours and his themes, transposing his interest in the ephemeral into other settings.

FRAMING

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