Title: Hokusai and Hiroshige :
Authors: White, Julia M.; Brandon, Reiko Mochinaga.; Woodson, Yoko.; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.; Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Date: 1998
Publisher: Asian Art Museum of San Franciso in association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts and University of Washington Press, Seattle and London,
Physical description: 270 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 32 cm
Language: English
LC classification: N
Abstract: "By the 1800s, when the artists Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige lived and worked, commoners enjoyed the numerous amenities of Edo (Tokyo), the world's largest city (pop. ca. 800,000). They launched businesses, perfected crafts, gained leisure time and literacy, traveled a coherent system of safe roads, and enjoyed art, poetry, a seemingly limitless taste for novelty, and the income to indulge them." "Ukiyo-e prints - 'pictures of the floating world' - reflect the lives of the Edo commoners. In Hokusai's and Hiroshige's prints, we see the faces of this new middle class, both the excitement and drudgery of their daily activities, and favorite views of the landmarks and natural wonders they beheld." "Most of the 200 ukiyo-e prints in this book (100 by Hokusai, 100 by Hiroshige) are from the distinguished James A. Michener Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts." "Included in their entirety are Hokusai's series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, and Hiroshige's series, Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, along with selections from their other major series."--Jacket.
Contents: Hokusai and Hiroshige through the collector's eyes / Julia M. White -- Modest wear and extraordinary vision : commoners' clothing in Hokusai and Hiroshige / Reiko Mochinaga Brandon -- Hokusai and Hiroshige : landscape prints of the Ukiyo-e School / Yoko Woodson -- Hokusai -- Hiroshige.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the Honolulu Academy of Arts and held at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Sept. 23, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999.
Subject headings (LCSH): Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858--Exhibitions.; Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849--Exhibitions.; Ukiyoe--Exhibitions.