One Hundred Views Of Edo

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

You tin seat notice persuasion around of the views from these 3 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 pick out a marking 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 endeavor of switching betwixt unlike tabs inwards your browser.

If you lot desire to persuasion around of Hiroshige's run inwards to a greater extent than item the Chester Beatty Digtial Collections too the Wellcome Collection both ain around of Hiroshige's woodcut prints which you lot tin seat notice explore using their respective iiif viewers.


Geo-tagging too mapping artworks is an erstwhile idea. Perhaps the best event of an fine art map is the Tate's Artmaps, an interactive map showing 23,000 industrial 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.