Hiroshige: A Shoal of Fishes

by Hiroshige Utagawa (Artist), Bryan Holme (Introduction)

A Shoal of Metropolitan Museum of A Shoal of Metropolitan Museum of Art/Viking Studio FIRST First Edition, First Printing. Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art/Viking Studio Book, 1980. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Slipcase is very good. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller 340836 Art We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!

Genres: Art

54 pages, Hardcover

First published October 23, 1980

About the author

born 1798

Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige captured the serenity of landscape of his country with his superbly composed color woodblock prints, including Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido (1832).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshige

Reviews

[Claire · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of Hiroshige's fish prints with poems in an unusually formatted book, a trait I always enjoy. It's not bound. Rather it has hard covers for the front and back but no spine. End papers are attached to the covers and the rest is all folded accordion style. Really it's all one super long page. If you had the space, you could unfold the entire book. It's stored in a cardboard sleeve.

After all the prints, there are pages with thumbnail versions which tell you the type of fish or shellfish pictured, the season indicated by plant life, and translations of the poems.