Description
Utagawa Hiroshige, a member of the samurai class, inherited his father's official post as a teenager, though he simultaneously apprenticed as a ukiyo-e artist. He maintained this arrangement for close to two decades, only retiring his official position in the years following the death of his artistic master. It was around this time that he began creating landscapes, the woodblock prints that would make him and his work beloved around the world.
The prints showcased in this holiday card assortment present Hiroshige's vision of the idyllic, tranquil Japanese winter. Contains five each of the following holiday cards: Kozuke Province: Mount Haruna in Snow, 1853; Kinryuzan Temple at Asakusa, 1856.;Year-end Fair at Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa, c. 1835-1838; Evening Snow at Mimeguri, Eight Views of the Sumida River, c. 1840-1842.
Museum Story
The National Museum of Asian Art is a global resource for understanding Asian arts, cultures, and societies and their intersection with the United States. Opened in 1923 as the country's first national art museum, it now stewards one of the world's best collections of Asian art, which date from antiquity to the present, from China, Japan, Korea, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Ancient Near East, and the Islamic world (including Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa). The museum also holds an important array of 19th- and early 20th-century American art of the Aesthetic Movement.
Details
- Inside greeting: Season's Greetings
- Set of 20 cards, 5 each of 4 designs, and 20 soft white envelopes
- Matching decorative box
- 7" x 5", 2 horizontal and 2 vertical designs
- Made in China
