Henri-Alexis Baastch

A deluxe, large-format edition of this beautifully illustrated introduction to Utagawa Hiroshige, thought to be the most successful ukiyo-e artist of Japan's Edo period. From the author of Hokusai: A Life in Drawing comes an illuminating account of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), the last great artist of the ukiyo-e tradition. Ukiyo-e, meaning 'images of the floating world', was a ubiquitous genre...