Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tokaido Aritaya

Download or read book Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tokaido Aritaya written by Cristina Berna and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aritaya Fifty Three Stations of the Tokaido Road is one of the most beautiful of Hiroshiges huge production of landscape print series in spite of its small size. It is only abt 10 x 15 cm (with variations), Yotsugiri yokoban (quarter oban). It is also unusual in that it is a veritable full course and manual in landscape print design. It is a very rewarding study. All the way through Hiroshige follows certain design principles of proportion of elements, arranging elements and views by diagonals and parallels and balancing of color elements. Compared to most of his other Tokaido series Hiroshige in Aritaya focus on letting the landscape tell the story instead of letting people or legend do that, although this is not followed through completely.