A new exhibition dedicated to Hiroshige at the British Museum introduces visitors to the full depth and complexity of his ...

Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo includes two pictures of plum ... when he planted plum trees around a teahouse he built alongside his store. The lively scene depicted by Hiroshige ...

The samurai rulers of the Edo period in Japan (1615-1868 ... to then paint his own recreation in Flowering Tree, After Hiroshige. The Plum Garden at Kameido from 100 Famous Views of Edo, 1857 ...

The first was inspired by Hiroshige’s The Plum Garden at Kameido (1857), an early morning view of blossom in a district in Edo (now Tokyo ... loved flowering trees in spring.

The British Museum’s major new tribute to the 19th-century Japanese master Utagawa Hiroshige is an exquisite foil for modern life ...

With its splendid branches and white plum blossoms, this famous painting is known for captivating Van Gogh. Discover why people were able to tell this was a specific tree at Kameido Umeyashiki.

HIROSHIGE: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, by Melanie Trede and Lorenz Bichler. Taschen (ISBN978-4-88783-357-9), 294 pp., 2008, ¥15,750 (paper, with presentation box) Hiroshige and Katsushika ...

The garden was created in the Edo period. It has 140 plum trees in 19 varieties that have red or white blossoms. Visitors enjoyed fresh sweets in the shape of plum blossoms and matcha green tea ...

The samurai rulers of the Edo ... Hiroshige that he’d make copies of his work. Towards the end of the exhibition there is a show-stopping display of the Hiroshage print van Gogh owned - The Plum ...