
In browsing through the color reproductions in Hiroshige: The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Fujikei by Cristina Berna and Eric Thomsen, the reader is struck by the harmonious palette of blues, grays, peaches and pale yellows, and by the strict composition of each wood print — a bijin (or "beautiful…

Cynthia ConradDecember 8, 2021