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One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (in Japanese 名所江戸百景 "Meisho Edo Hyakkei") is a series of ukiyo-e prints begun and largely completed by the Japanese artist Hiroshige (1797–1858). The prints were first published in serialized form in 1856–59, with Hiroshige II completing the series after Hiroshige's death. It was tremendously popular and much reprinted.
History.
Hiroshige painted in the style of the Utagawa school, a 19th-century popular style in woodblock prints, much favoured
Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi bridge and Atake
The well-known variant state of this print, the variant owned by Van Gogh, is in fact a later state. The first state depicted an additional two boats, a different background, less angular rain, and a carving error in the pylons that was corrected by handpainting.
"One Hundred Famous Views of Edo".
The picture is part of the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" which actually features 119 views of 'named places' or