Publisher's Synopsis
A selection of 20 woodblock prints by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), taken from several series originally published at different points in time of his career. They include the early series 'Famous Views in the Eastern Capital' in which Fuji appears and 14 prints from 'The Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji' -- published after his death in 1858. The last two illustrations in the book are from 'The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road' -- the series which made his name in the 1830s and has become the most famous and most reproduced series of all Japanese prints. As every traveller to Japan knows, Fuji the sacred mountain, exerts a great fascination; poets have extolled it and artists depicted it. Hiroshige's public was just as fascinated by the mountain as the Japanese are today.
