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Subject | 19th century, Art, Art history, Criticism, Culture, History, Japan, Japanese art, Japanese woodblock prints, Ukiyo-e, Utagawa Hiroshige [歌川 広重] a.k.a. Andō Hiroshige [安藤 広重] (Japanese, 1797 – 1858) |
Character/Sitter | Utagawa Hiroshige [歌川 広重] a.k.a. Andō Hiroshige [安藤 広重] (Japanese, 1797 – 1858) |
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Muneshige Narazaki. Hiroshige: Famous views [広重] / English adaptation by Richard L. Gage (Masterworks of ukiyo-e, №5). — Tokyo; Palo-Alto, CA: Kodansha International, 1970.
Hardcover volume from the series Masterworks of ukiyo-e, 26.3 x 19 cm, bound in unprimed canvas, red characters on black strip to front, red and black lettering to spine, tan flat endpapers, in a pictorial slipcase with series design (black lettering on silver spine); pp: [1-6]: h.t./frontis. (colour plate pasted in), t.p./imprint, contents/acknowledgements), 7-67 text, 27-30 map, 31-32 f.t./blank, 33-96 (65 plates w/captions).
Title-page (in frame): MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E | HIROSHIGE | FAMOUS VIEWS | by Muneshige Narazaki | English adaptation by Richard L. Gage | {publisher’s device} | KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL LTD. | Tokyo, Japan & Palo-Alto, Calif., U.S.A | {vertical, between rules in ms 広重]} ||
Series: Masterworks of ukiyo-e, № 5.
Edition: 1st edition ©1968, 2nd printing 1970.
Muneshige Narazaki [楢崎 宗重] (Japanese, 1904 – 2001) – author.
Utagawa Hiroshige [歌川 広重] a.k.a. Andō Hiroshige [安藤 広重] (Japanese, 1797 – 1858) – artist.
Richard L. Gage (American, b. 1934) – adaptation.