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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

One Hundred Views Of Edo


Utagawa Hiroshige was 1 of Japan's finest ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) artists. Hiroshige is in all probability nearly well-known for his serial of woodcut prints, such equally The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo as well as Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces.

You tin stance to a greater extent than or less of the views from these iii serial of prints on the Ukiyo-e Map. This interactive map has placed each Hiroshige impress on the actual location depicted inwards Hiroshige's landscapes. If you lot direct a mark on the map the epitome volition opened upwards inwards a novel tab or window. It is a shame that the images don't opened upwards inwards their ain information window on the map. However Hiroshige's brilliance makes it worth the endeavour of switching betwixt dissimilar tabs inwards your browser.

If you lot desire to stance to a greater extent than or less of Hiroshige's hold upwards inwards to a greater extent than especial the Chester Beatty Digtial Collections as well as the Wellcome Collection both ain to a greater extent than or less of Hiroshige's woodcut prints which you lot tin explore using their respective iiif viewers.


Geo-tagging as well as mapping artworks is an one-time idea. Perhaps the best event of an fine art map is the Tate's Artmaps, an interactive map showing 23,000 plant of fine art inwards its collection. All the mapped artworks are associated amongst a specific location, either through information inwards the work's title, inwards its description or equally depicted inwards the artwork itself.