Hiroshige: A Shoal of Fishes

by Hiroshige Utagawa

English, Japanese

Genres: Art

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).

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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.