Utagawa Hiroshige - Plum Park In Kameido

Plum Park in Kameido is a woodblock print in the ukiyo-e genre by the Japanese artist Hiroshige. It was published in 1857 as the thirtieth print in the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo series and depicts Prunus mume trees in bloom. Hiroshige brings us face to face with the celebrated "Sleeping Dragon Plum" of Kameido. This tree, the most famous in Edo, was known for the purity of its double blossoms, which, according to one Edo guidebook, were "so white when full in bloom as to drive off the darkness." We are so close that we can almost smell the tree's powerful fragrance, reputed to have lured the shogun Yoshimune as he passed nearby in the early eighteenth century.

24" x 36"

18%

Jake Herman | (203) 703-8762 | jacobherman83@gmail.com

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Jean Jacobs Gallery

New Canaan, CT 06840

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Saturday, 4/1, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm

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