Landscape Prints

Katsushika Hokusai’s most famous prints series, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), who was one of the most active ukiyo-e artists in Edo Period, accomplished the Mt.Fuji arts series of “Fugaku Sanjurokkei”(Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji) in early 18th century. Related PostKatsushika Hokusai's biographyViewing one by one, you should not get boared with them by his color usage and composition. Please click if you want to learn about the description of the woo...

The Japanese wave arts of "Oceans of Wisdom "(One Thousand Images of the Sea) After the finish of "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" (富嶽三十六景）, the star ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai started the new series of the Japanese wave arts "One Thousand Images of the Sea" (Oceans of Wisdom,千絵の海) in 1833. He had mainly depicted the combination of the view with Mt.Fuji, the rivers, and the rakes in "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji". Related PostLear...

“A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces” (諸国瀧廻り) Just after the success of  "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji", popular ukiyo-e artist among Edo people, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) produced the famous waterfalls ukiyo-e series "A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces" from 1833 to 1837. When he drew the pitcures, he used the name of "former Hokusai and Iitsu" for the signature. Because he give Hokusai to his disciple and took new name Iitsu(為一).In...

The masterpiece arts of Utagawa Hiroshige, "Fifty-Three Stages on the Tokaido" Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige led the field of landscape printing in ukiyo-e. Especially, "Fifty-Three Stages on the Tokaido" is one of the most highly regarded woodblock printings series in Japanese art.          One of the famous landscape ukiyo-e woodblock prints When he started to draw the paintings around 1833, "Thirty-Six Views of...

"Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces"(六十余州名所図会)Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige (1797-1858) worked on the work of "Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces" in his later life from 1853 to 1856. Unlike "Fifty-Three Stages on the Tokaido", he used a vertically long screen called Tate-e(立て絵). "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo " is also the type of Tate-e. Sponsored LinksHe completed this series with 69 pictures(68 old Japanese countries and Edo C...

The gallery of "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo"In 1853, Utagawa(Ando) Hiroshige began to draw the new series of landscape ukiyo-e. He already held the position of pupular ukiyo-e artist by the succuess of "Fifty-Three Stages on the Tokaido". His new work was on the theme of sights in various parts of the Edo.     As its name suggests, "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" consists of more than 100 paintings (and table of contents). And they are divided into four sea...

Kawase Hasui(1883-1957)Kawase Hasui(川瀬巴水)  was a modern Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print(shin-hanga) artist who played an active part in the early 1900s and the middle. Unfortunately, comparing to Katushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige, he has not been so well-known in Japan. But he left 467 works of woodcut prints and received high praise from the other countries.  Kawase Hasui's biography Kawase Bunjiro(川瀬文治郎) was born in Shiba, Tokyo in 1883 and had a real nam...