Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo includes two pictures of plum gardens: “Plum Estate at Kameido” and “Plum Garden at Kamata.” In this installment we visit the garden in Kamata ...

Hiroshige was one of Japan’s most popular print artists during the Edo period and this new ... paint his own recreation in Flowering Tree, After Hiroshige. ... Plum Garden at Kameido from 100 ...

Hiroshige made thousands of designs - as well as paintings and illustrations for books - and this collection at the British Museum showcases over 100 of the surviving prints, many never been seen ...

Hiroshige was born Andō Tokutarō in Edo, now Tokyo, in 1797 to a samurai family. He was orphaned by the age of 12, whereupon he inherited his father’s role as a fire warden for Edo Castle.

View Meisho Edo hyakkei Kameido Umeyashiki Plum Estate, Kameido from ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO by Utagawa Hiroshige on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Utagawa Hiroshige. Price ...

View Edo meisyo, Kameido umedaho Plum garden at Kameido from the ONE HUNDRED SCENIC SPOTS OF EDO 江戸名所 亀戸梅屋舗 by Utagawa Hiroshige on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Utagawa Hiroshige.

Gauguin’s early masterpiece Vision of the Sermon (1888) was probably influenced by the cropped tree in The Plum Garden at Kameido. He may well have seen Van Gogh’s copy of the Hiroshige—and ...

Born into a low-ranking samurai family in Edo (present-day Tokyo), then the largest city in the world, Hiroshige became renowned for his lyrical and atmospheric colour-woodblock prints.

Over the course of a thousand years, the praised plum trees in the gardens of the Heian nobility were overtaken by the wild cherry blossoms of places like Nara’s Mount Yoshino – a change in ...

An annual tea ceremony held while viewing plum blossoms took place at Shukkeien Garden in Hiroshima. The garden was created in the Edo period. It has 140 plum trees in 19 varieties that have red ...

Utagawa Hiroshige’s “100 Famous Views of Edo" at the Brooklyn Museum. Clockwise from top left, “Kiyomizu Hall and Shinobazu Pond at Ueno,” No. 11; “Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi ...