Tag: ‘Hiroshige’

• Nell Shaw Cohen, “Setsugekka” (2011) Japanese woodblock prints by Hiroshige

   Guide: Music Inspired by Art Setsugekka (Snow, Moon, and Flowers) is an 1857 series of three triptychs (artworks in three sections) by the Japanese master Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858). These woodblock prints, or Ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”), convey Hiroshige’s vision of three different real-world landscapes representing the traditional thematic triad of snow (setsu), moon [...]

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• An Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Prints [VIDEO]

  By the 1830s, woodblock printing was a well-established market in Edo, Japan (now Tokyo). Print publishers worked to finance the production of fashionable art in print form. Publishers commissioned artists, like Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), to design prints which were then carved by professional woodblock carvers and printed by professional woodblock printers. Hiroshige was a poor [...]

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