WOODBLOCK PRINT ON PAPER. THIS IS A WONDERFUL WORK ON A LIGHTWEIGHT PAPER. THE COLORS ARE VIVID AND THE LINES ARE CRISP. PLEASE ENLARGE THE IMAGE TO GET A BETTER IDEA. YOU CAN FEEL THE BLOCK IMPRESSION WHEN YOU GENTLY FEEL THE EDGES OF THE IMAGE. PAPER SIZE: 7 1/2 X 10 3/8 INCHES. THE REVERSE HAS BEEN REINF0RCED WITH A. CONSERVATION GRADE RICE TAPE. Memorial portrait of Hiroshige by. The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido. The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaido. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. 1797 – 12 October 1858, was a Japanese. Artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series. And for his vertical-format landscape series. The subjects of his work were atypical of the. Genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan’s. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Was a strong influence on Hiroshige’s choice of subject, though Hiroshige’s approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai’s bolder, more formal prints. Subtle use of color was essential in Hiroshige’s prints, often printed with multiple impressions in the same area and with extensive use of. (color gradation), both of which were rather labor-intensive techniques. For scholars and collectors, Hiroshige’s death marked the beginning of a rapid decline in the. Genre, especially in the face of the westernization that followed the. Hiroshige’s work came to have a marked influence on western European painting towards the close of the 19th century as a part of the trend in. Western European artists, such as. Collected and closely studied Hiroshige’s compositions. Of some Hiroshige prints.