About the book: Utagawa Hiroshige's landscape prints ‘Evening Snow’ and ‘Evening Rain’ are well known, but the full range of his work is shown in this book, showcasing the full oeuvre of the master of landscape art. Born to a prominent samurai family in eighteenth-century Japan, Hiroshige's work engaged with all social strata, with a real interest in the everyday lives he saw around him. This lavishly illustrated book is perfect to demonstrate the full range of the artist's ability in colour, featuring work from private collections as well as the British Museum in this celebration of his corpus.

About the author: Alfred Haft is a Project Curator in the Japanese Section of the Department of Asia at the British Museum.  In 2010, he was awarded the first Anne van Biema Postdoctoral Fellowship, offered jointly by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.