Japanese Greeting Card Otonashi River Dam

Japanese Greeting Card Otonashi River Dam size A6 148 mm x 105 mm.

Hiroshige is considered as one of the greatest 19th century Japanese print artists and is thought to have designed around 5400 prints. He is best known for his landscape prints which have influenced Western impressionists such as Van Gogh and Claude Monet. In 1856, Hiroshige ‘retired from the world’, becoming a Buddhist monk. This was the year he began the epic series ‘One Hundred Famous Views of Edo’, a series of which this image is from.

A6 size card 148mm x 105mm, Quality embossed paper which gives a textured and visual edge. Hand finished rounded corners complete with white embossed envelope and packed in a self cello bag

Description on the reverse of the card:

Otonashi River Dam
by Hiroshige (1797–1858))
Hiroshige is considered as one of the greatest 19th century Japanese print artists and is thought to have designed around 5400 prints. He is best known for his landscape prints which have influenced Western impressionists such as Van Gogh and Claude Monet.
In 1856, Hiroshige ‘retired from the world’, becoming a Buddhist monk. This was the year he began the epic series ‘One Hundred Famous Views of Edo’, a series of which this image is from.