Analysis: Utagawa Hiroshige ll “Nihonbashi, Thirty-six Views of Tokyo (

Niroshige ll, Thirty-six views of Tokyo is done in the style Ukiyo-e which during the Edo period was a way for artisans to mass expose their art work. Ukiyo-e is the technique of woodblock, Ukiyo-e has serval different themes. It consist of Bijin ( beautiful women of the enjoyment quarter) Portraits of actors, Famous landscapes, and Asobi-e ( erotica ). The Nihonbasi Thirty-six views of Tokyo is done in the landscape painting tradition, which is confronted in the title of the print. Landscape prints normally feature a beautiful place in japan that the Chonin would want to visit, the artist Utagawa Hiroshige ll uses techniques to portray what the subject of the piece which is a harbor and shoreline that helps help portray a sense of depth and logging to the Thirty-six views of Tokyo. With the subject of the print universe so easily given, the composition of the print is one that is not so easily seen. There is a lot that is going on in the print which at first conveys a sense of chaos, theres maybe a bridge, a shoreline with buildings, boats and a ladder of some sort right in the middle ...