Although his artistic gifts were recognized while he was still a child, Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1868) only began to produce what are now considered his masterpieces in the 1830s, when he was well into middle age. Shunning the popular tradition of courtesan subjects at the time, he concentrated on landscape and nature works for which he had a special affinity. During this decade, he created some 5,000 bird and flower studies, a genre considered one of the most venerable in the hierarchy of Japanese art. Working within a limited repertoire of nature subjects, Hiroshige endlessly experimented with design and composition in a variety of formats. His bird and flower prints, where the spectacular use of color captures a range of moods, perhaps best demonstrate Hiroshige’s poetic and idyllic sense of nature. This volume includes a selection of the finest examples of Hiroshige’s bird and flower prints from the renowned Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection, now housed at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.

192 pages, 102 illustrations (91 full-color plates), 10 in. x 14 1/2 in. Hardcover; clothbound, with jacket.

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