Edo period in Japan lasted from 1603 to 1867/1868. During this time the country was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate. Hokusai’s Great Wave from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and Hiroshige’s ...
Although Japanese weather varies greatly across the archipelago, the abundance of rain throughout the year remains a common phenomenon across Japan.
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the most prolific and popular Ukiyo-e artists in Japan. The word Ukiyo-e means ...
The British Museum will take visitors on a journey through Edo Japan this summer through an exhibition of prints by Utagawa ...
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Hiroshige hosts an art event that costs him a fortune, but the spotlight is stolen by a popular artist, Kunisada. On his way home, he spots Kayo at a pawn shop and realizes he had been putting a ...
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It is 1830. Utagawa Hiroshige is a fire warden from a low-ranking samurai family who is struggling to establish himself as an ukiyo-e artist. One day, he learns about a new paint called Berlin ...
The Atelier Grognard in Rueil-Malmaison also promises a plunge into Japanese culture, with an exhibition of some 50 objects ...