Analysis: Utagawa Hiroshige ll “Nihonbashi, Thirty-six Views of Tokyo ( Tokyo Sanjurokkei )”

Hiroshige Jiro "Ukiyo-e" is a way for craftsmen to produce large-scale art work in the Edo period. Ukiyoe is a technique of woodcut prints, and Ukiyoe has various themes. Beauty (beauty of the entertainment district), famous landscape, playing (erotic). Japan Bashi "36 scenes in Tokyo" is completed in the tradition of landscape, and it is drawn in the title of printmaking. Landscape painting is usually a beautiful place in Japan, Chonin wants to visit, artist Utagawa Hiroshige uses technology to draw the theme of the work as a port or coastline

The first fish market in Tokyo was originally in the Nihonbashi area, adjacent to Nihonbashi. When Edo (until the Tokyo in the 1870s) was the capital of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the market provided food for the Edo Castle built on a nearby hill. In 1590, Tokugawa Ieyasu offered fish from the Osaka Tsukuda to the fishermen of Edo. Then please sell the fish that was not bought at the castle in the market called the fish shop near Nihonbashi.

When Tokyo was called Edo, the area around Nihonbashi was the center of activities. Nihonbashi is the first site of Tokaido (53 sites of Tokaido that connect Edo and Kyoto, these towns are also the theme of famous Japanese ukiyoe). It is the "origin" of crossing a highway. Reconstruction is progressing in the same Nihonbashi area today. Especially in the Muromachi area, new office buildings have just been built, and with the advent of restaurants, halls and cinemas, the city has gotten busier and busier. Saruya is only a bit away from the back street

I am in a hurry to the popular cherry blossoms viewing area near Tokyo Nihombashi. This picture was taken on the iPhone, and some post-processing was done with Apple's photo software. "Dramatic" filter

A big wave in Kanagawa Prefecture is one of the beauty series of Mt. Fuji printed on woodcut prints. Episodes entitled "Mt. Fuji 16 Sceneries" originally published during the period from 1831 to 1933 means "Thirty-six views of Mt. Fuji", but Hokkaido has 46 scenery from various angles saw. But there are things that come from far away. As Nagano prefecture, Aichi prefecture. In the world's most famous series, Fuji sees the waves from the other side of the sea and see several ships fighting in the waves; we are watching a scene from the same ship Please think that you are passing through the telescope. Artificial color Prussian blue has just been listed in Japan, and Hokusai is making maximum use of the range of possibilities it offers.