Thirty color reproductions bound in a handy postcard collection. Produced between 1856 and 1858 by the artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 1858), One Hundred Famous Views of Edo ( Meisho Edo Hyakkei ), a collection of woodblock prints, has had a lasting influence on Western art, especially the Imperialists and Post-impressionist movements. The Japanese gardens in these prints inspired Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh owned several of Hiroshige s prints depicting plum trees in bloom. Selected from the Brooklyn Museum of Art s complete edition of the series, the thirty dramatic prints in this book of postcards epitomize Hiroshige s superb compositions.