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 ...

Hiroshige was one of Japan’s most popular print artists during the Edo period and this new exhibition shows how his visual ...

Born into a low-ranking samurai family in Edo (present-day Tokyo), then the ... it is his sensitivity to ephemeral natural beauty – blossoming plum trees, swooping kingfishers – that hits ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...