One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei 名所江戸百景)
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is a set of colour woodblock landscape prints by Andō Hiroshige, published in Edo (Tokyo) in 1856 by the publisher Uoya Eikichi for a popular domestic audience. The pictures are wide double-page panoramas of city sites, rivers, bridges and gardens, with pale sky gradients, layered blue water and small figures set against trees and architecture; a designer might borrow their compressed perspective, flat tonal bands and placement of tiny figures to structure a landscape.
