Hiroshige One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Art Book

The Hiroshige One Hundred Famous Views of Edo presents a reprint of Utagawa Hiroshige's celebrated ukiyo-e woodblock series depicting Edo, modern-day Tokyo. Authored by Lorenz Bichler and Melanie Trede, the volume combines Hiroshige's iconic landscapes with portraits of actors, wrestlers, and women rendered in the traditional floating world style. Its pages bring together bustling city scenes and blooming cherry trees, offering a dynamic visual record of 19th-century Japan that shaped Western perceptions of the country.

This stunning reprint of Utagawa Hiroshige's (1797–1858) views of Edo, aka modern-day Tokyo, is brought to readers by Taschen in a volume that celebrates one of the last great artists in the 'ukiyo-e' tradition. Authored by Lorenz Bichler and Melanie Trede, this beautiful book presents the artist's famous landscapes alongside depictions of beautiful women, actors and wrestlers in the woodblock tradition of 'ukiyo-e', which literally translates to 'pictures of the floating world'. The result brings bustling shopping streets and city lights together with blooming cherry trees for a dynamic view on Japan that played a huge role in the West's impression of the country at the time.