Ashmolean Museum, Japan, Koganei in Musashi Province, prints, Utagawa Hiroshige, Vincent Van Gogh

Utagawa Hiroshige at the Ashmolean Museum

15th May

The Japanese have always considered Mount Fuji to be the greatest symbol of Japan. This print which is at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, shows one from a series of Hirsohige’s 36 views of Mount Fuji, a homage to his country but also to his contemporary Hokusai and his series with the same title (c.1833)....

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