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and subsequent fires, and featured many of the newly rebuilt or repaired buildings. The prints may have commemorated or helped draw the attention of Edo's citizens to the progress of the rebuilding. The series is in portrait orientation, which was a break from ukiyo-e tradition for landscape prints,
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whereby the closest objects in view are increased in size. The positioning of the undetailed subject 'too close to the lens' is intended to draw the eye to the scene beyond. In addition the use of the unnatural red sky has the effect of flattening the visible space.
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The British Museum Collection Online. No.30 Kameido umeyashiki 亀戸梅屋敷 (The Plum Garden at Kameido Shrine) / 名所江戸百景 Meisho Edo hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views in Edo, No. 30)
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finishing the series after the death of Hiroshige in 1858. This print is the 30th in the series, within its spring section, and was published in the
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in Kameido. Visible between the branches of the Sleeping Dragon Plum are further trees and small figures behind a low fence contemplating the
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Van Gogh and Japanese Art, Part 1 - The Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige) & Flowering Plum Tree (after Hiroshige)
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Japonisme in Britain: Whistler, Menpes, Henry, Hornel and nineteenth-century Japan, Ayako Ono, Routledge, 5 Nov 2013
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The Independent - Utagawa Hiroshige, The Moon Reflected, Ikon Gallery Birmingham, A thoroughly modern past master
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Plum Estate, Kameido (Kameido umeyashiki), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)
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Hiroshige's most popular prints were produced in the tens of thousands at a low individual cost and due to the
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Good News from Hiroshige: A New Interpretation of the Series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo"
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Plum Estate, Kameido (Kameido Umeyashiki), No. 30 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
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which actually features 119 views of named places or celebrated spots in the city of
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G.P. Weisberg; P.D. Cate; G. Needham; M. Eidelberg; W.R. Johnston (1975).
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was a collector of Japanese prints, decorating his studio with them.
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after 1853 were popular both in Japan and Europe where they had a
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Hiroshige's original woodblock print and Van Gogh's copy in oil
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of 1857. The series was commissioned shortly after the
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Japonisme - Japanese Influence on French Art 1854-1910
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Many different versions of the print from ukiyo-e.org
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The series was produced between 1856 and 1859, with
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Andō Hiroshige
11th month of 1857
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Kameido
Kōtō City
Coordinates
35°42′16.3″N 139°49′26.1″E / 35.704528°N 139.823917°E / 35.704528; 139.823917
woodblock print
ukiyo-e
Hiroshige
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Prunus mume
Vincent van Gogh
influenced by Japanese prints
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Edo
Tokyo
Hiroshige II
eleventh month
1855 Edo earthquake

colour scheme
Edo
Japanese calligraphy
Sumida River
plum blossom
single-point perspective
opening up of Japan
huge influence

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