Higurashi no sato jiin no rinsen Andō Hiroshige
Summary
Print shows sightseers walking among the blossoming trees in the temple gardens at Nippori.
Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06.
From the series: Meisho edo hyakkei : 100 famous views of Edo.
Format: vertical Oban Nishikie.
Illus. in album: Gajō icchō, p. 4.
Forms part of: Visual materials from Donald D. Walker collection.
Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: "Sakura : Cherry Blossom as Living Symbol of Friendship" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2012.
Exhibit caption: Hiroshige's view near Ueno Hill features two graceful weeping cherry trees in the foreground. The specific site shown has been identified as Shūsō-in, one of three Buddhist temple gardens collectively known as Hanamidera or Flower-viewing Temples as well as Jiin Rinsen or Temple Gardens. This album includes fifty woodblock prints from Hiroshige's spectacular assemblage of famous views of Edo (present day Tokyo).
Woodblock printing in Japan (木版画, moku-hanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period. Woodblock printing had been used in China for centuries to print books, long before the advent of movable type, but was widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603-1868). Woodblock printing appeared in Japan at the beginning of Edo period, when Tokugawa shogunate was ruled by the Japanese society. This technique originated from China, where it was used to print books for many centuries. Its original name is ‘moku-hanga’ and it has a wide usage in artistic genre of ‘ukiyo-e’. As opposed to western tradition, where artists used oil-based inks for woodcuts, moku-hanga technique uses water-based inks. That is why those prints had colors so vivid, as well as glazes, and transparency. This collection describes Japanese printmaking different schools and movements. The most notable of them were: - From 1700: Torii school - From 1700-1714: Kaigetsudō school - From 1720s: Katasukawa school, including the artists Shunsho and Shuntei - From 1725: Kawamata school including the artists Suzuki Harunobu and Koryusai - From 1786: Hokusai school, including the artists Hokusai, Hokuei and Gakutei - From 1794: Kitagawa school, including the artists Utamaro I, Kikumaro I and II - From 1842: Utagawa school, including the artists Kunisada and Hiroshige - From 1904: Sōsaku-hanga, "Creative Prints" movement - From 1915: Shin-hanga "New Prints" school, including Hasui Kawase and Hiroshi Yoshida Woodblock prints were provided by the Library of Congress and cover the period from 1600 to 1980.
- Utagawa Hiroshige: Temple Gardens, Nippori. - Library of Congress
- Higurashi no sato jiin no rinsen - Library of Congress
- Cherry Blossoms | Page 2 - Smithsonian Institution
- Temple Gardens, Nippori - Honolulu Museum of Art - Ukiyo-e Search
- Nippori hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy
- Higurashi no sato jiin no rinsen | Library of Congress
- Higurashi no sato jiin no rinsen - digital files from original prints
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- EDAN Search Results | Page 161 - Smithsonian Institution