Japanese Art: Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo - Carp Banners

Description: Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Suido Bridge and Surugadi - 'Carp Banners', 1857 Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) Fine Art Reproduction Full Size Reproduction: 15 x 10 inches This reproduction is a new, individually printed and proofed, superior quality, giclee* process, fine art print. It is printed on 100% cotton rag acid-free, heavyweight fine art paper with a luxurious textured watercolor paper finish and archival pigment inks to ensure permanence. Created for collectors, it IS NOT A POSTER or mass produced print on low quality, inexpensive paper. Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1856-1858, was composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo. It remains one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art and is a celebration of the style and world of Japan's finest cultural flowering. Like Venice and Florence in Renaissance Italy, Edo (modern day Tokyo), was the cultural center of Japan. Visually, Hiroshige’s woodcuts may be taken as a travelogue of mid-ninetieth century Japan that predates the invention of color photography. In essence, that is what the series presents – a color saturated panorama of daily life in Tokyo and its outlying districts with its firework displays, geishas on parade, teahouses and the city’s fashionable commercial and scenic districts. The woodcuts were all of uniform size, approximately 15 x 10 inches (oban tateye format). Hiroshige’s signature – Hiroshige-ga, appears is the vertical cartouche on red background in the lower left hand part of each print. The vertical cartouche, also on red background, in the upper right section is the series title (Meiso Edo hyakkei) and the smaller square in multiple colors bears the name of the individual print. The publisher often left his seal in a vertical cartouche in the lower left hand margin. The censor’s seals are those in the upper right margin. Carp Banners over Suido Bridge and Surugadi – 1857 The three huge flying carp banners in this woodcut drew on Chinese legend of a fish so strong and determined that it could leap over a waterfall. Silk and paper banners were flown to celebrate festivals and religious occasions. Ando Hiroshige was the foremost woodblock artist of his day specializing in scenes of birds, fish, flowers and landscapes. His bird and flower prints defined the kacho-e school of landscape scenes within the larger ukiyo-e genre of portraits of courtesans, actors and scenes from everyday life. During a forty year career Hiroshige produced thousands of kacho-e designs. Many also include short descriptive poems (haiku) by collaborating popular poets. Japanese woodblock prints were treasured by their original owners and collected in albums to be viewed and appreciated at leisure. Often, these prints were backed with inexpensive paper mounts rather than costlier silk and displayed as scroll paintings on the walls of Japanese homes. Known as kakemono-e, these affordable scroll paintings became a common decoration for Japan’s growing middle class in the 19th century. Original Medium: Woodcut with colors on paper. Reproduction Medium – Textured, Fine Art Paper and colored pigment inks Image Size: Actual - 15 x 10 inches (printed on larger 17 x 13 inch paper to allow ample borders for matting and framing) About Our Prints The brilliant colors and fine line detail of our reproductions offer the best quality for price performance available online or in shops today. We guarantee that you will be pleased with the superior quality of our prints and encourage you to review our detailed feedback profile comments from past buyers: “Gorgeous, superior quality prints.” “Definitely the best print I have ever bought on Ebay” “Its beautiful! Great addition to my collection.” I invite you to view the other superior quality prints I also have on sale in my eBay Store, Da Vinci Art Prints or by clicking on ‘See other items’ at the top of this listing. Please email me with any questions **the giclee process produces a superior quality, fine art reproduction from a high-resolution digital file of an image. The file is then printed with a high-resolution photo generation printer on a fine art paper. Most artists and working photographers today use the giclee process to produce reproductions of their original artwork and photographs. As with any original art or fine art reproduction, it is recommended that prints are framed and displayed under glass to prevent color fade or shift over the years. Shipping Policy: Combined Shipping Costs on Multiple Print Orders Since I offer multiple Fine Art Reproductions on eBay concurrently, I combine orders to reduce your mailing costs. For multiple print orders please request invoice that will include final shipping and handling charges. US First Class Mail & First Class Mail International Prints ship in a premium quality, heavy protective cardboard tube, US First Class Mail or US First Class Mail International.

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