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- These are 10 reproductions from the 119 prints in the ukiyo-e series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" by Utagawa Hiroshige, an ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period.
- They were published around 1976 by Yomiuri Shimbun, a leading Japanese newspaper.
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo depicts the famous places of Edo and the people who lived there at the end of the Edo period.
- Hiroshige Utagawa was an ukiyo-e artist from the Edo period.
- He was also called Hiroshige Ando.
- He became a very popular painter with his woodblock prints depicting landscapes, and influenced Western painters such as Van Gogh and Monet.