#utagawa hiroshige

MWW Artwork of the Day (4/9/16)
Utagawa (aka Ando) Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858)
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo #64: Horikiri Iris Garden (5th month of 1857)
Color woodblock print, 36.1 x 23.6 cm.
The Brooklyn Museum, New York

In the village of Horikiri in suburban Edo, gardeners grew a year-round variety of flowers and were particularly famous for the iris shown here, “hanashobu,” well suited to this swampy land. In this print Hiroshige has shown three, almost-life-size, detailed specimens of the nineteenth-century hanashobu hybrids and in the distance, sightseers from Edo are admiring the blossoms. In the 1870’s the cultivation of hanashobu had begun to spread rapidly in Europe and America and the developed into a booming export market for the gardeners of Horikiri. The Horikiri plantations began to wane in the 1920’s and eventually turned over to wartime food production. After the war, one of them was revived and is now a public park, particularly popular in May when the flowers are in bloom.

(from the Museum catalog)

Hiroshige’s work is the subject of several MWW exhibits/galleries:
* Hokusai/Hiroshige - Fuji Views & Tokaido Stages
* Hiroshige’s Edo - Vistas into the Lost World of Tokugawa Japan (coming Summer 2016)
* Hiroshige’s Japan - More Vistas into a Lost World (coming Summer 2016)
+ Two installments of the MWW Non-Western Painting special Collection

Utagawa Hiroshige

Lake at Hakone from the Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji series, Hiroshige, 19th century

Woodblock print
33.5 x 21.5 cm (13.19 x 8.46 in.)

Lake Suwa in Shinano Province from the Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji series, Hiroshige, 19th century

Woodblock print
33.5 x 21.5 cm (13.19 x 8.46 in.)

inland-delta:

 Utagawa Hiroshige, New Year’s Eve Foxfires (detail), 1857

the-evil-clergyman:

Bats Flying across Pine Branch and Full Moon by Utagawa Hiroshige (1832-33)

Eight Shadow FiguresbyUtagawa Hiroshige (Japanease, 1797 - 1858) from the New Edition of Shadow Making Publisher: Jōshūya Jūzō / Jūbei, c. 1842, Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper.

The prints were probably considered omocha-e (toy pictures) intended for children.The eight patterns presented here (clockwise from upper right) are a turtle on a rock, a man wearing a Chinese-style hat, a rabbit, a shachihoko (a legendary creature with the head of dragon and the body of a dolphin), an owl, a fox, a snail, and a crow. Three include written instructions on how to make the shadows move: “open your fingers within your sleeve to move the owl’s wings,” “draw up your knee for the fox’s back,” “move the chopsticks up and down [snail].”

(Source: The Minneapolis Institute of Art)

Utagawa Hiroshige, Owl on a Maple Branch in the Full Moon, 1832.

Spring View at the Foot of Asuka Hill (Asukayama shita haru no kei 飛鳥山下春之景) ,  from the series Famous Hills in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho saka-zukushi no uchi 東都名所坂つくしの内 )

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (1797 - 1858), né Andō Hiroshige .

Source : https://www.mfa.org/

Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom at Asuka Hill (Asukayama manka 飛鳥山満花),  from the series Famous Hills in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho saka-zukushi no uchi 東都名所坂つくしの内 )

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (1797 - 1858), né Andō Hiroshige .

Source : https://www.mfa.org/

nobrashfestivity:

Utagawa Hiroshige, Flowers of the Four Seasons
Woodblock print
Published by Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudo), circa1835
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Honolulu Museum of Art

Bird and Camellia (Japan, 1850 - 1920) by Utagawa Hiroshige (I).

Woodblock print.

Rijksmuseum.

Wikimedia.

Utagawa Hiroshige. Bokashi. No date.

the-evil-clergyman:

Bats Flying across Pine Branch and Full Moon by Utagawa Hiroshige (1832-33)