I love finding a site that has been on the web for years (it's been five years since I first saw this site) and has remained intact without broken links.
The site for One Hundred Famous Views of Edo at the Brooklyn Museum is quite wonderful. It shows all 118 of the woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige. I know that the title says "One hundred famous views ..." but there are 118 prints on view.
The images can be browsed by season or by keyword, and also by leafing through all the prints. Once you select the method, each print has an accompanying text which explains the meaning of the objects in the image. Clicking on the smaller picture takes you to a larger version, which can then be examined under a magnifying rectangle - there is only one magnifying level.
The text that accompanies the online exhibition is quite good; I especially liked the section on the Woodblock Printmaking Process since facts are covered there that I wouldn't even have thought to be curious about.
The site for One Hundred Famous Views of Edo at the Brooklyn Museum is quite wonderful. It shows all 118 of the woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige. I know that the title says "One hundred famous views ..." but there are 118 prints on view.
The images can be browsed by season or by keyword, and also by leafing through all the prints. Once you select the method, each print has an accompanying text which explains the meaning of the objects in the image. Clicking on the smaller picture takes you to a larger version, which can then be examined under a magnifying rectangle - there is only one magnifying level.
The text that accompanies the online exhibition is quite good; I especially liked the section on the Woodblock Printmaking Process since facts are covered there that I wouldn't even have thought to be curious about.
