Talk:Plum Park in Kameido

"Hiroshige's exaggerated single-point perspective"

I don't understand "Hiroshige's exaggerated single-point perspective"—where is the vanishing point supposed to be? Do the sources really say this? Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 21:09, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Yes they do. Supposedly this is part of what Hiroshige is famous for and IIRC what was adopted by ?Monet? and via him the rest of the Impressionists so that the eye is drawn to the vanishing point and when there's nothing there it then wanders around iving the 'impression' required. I suspect in this image it just means that he has made the plum tree in the foreground too big. Hiroshige definitely tends to put large objects close to the camera with then a gap before things further away. JMiall₰ 21:22, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Famousness in lead

I think I slightly misread or misstated the source, but the 'Oshashi Bridge & Atake in a suden shower' source claims this series is his unquestionable masterpiece and the Honolulu source says it is 'one of the best-known Hiroshige prints outside Japan' and I don't think that 'and this is perhaps the most famous print outside Japan, from what is possibly his greatest series of woodcuts.' is a terrible rewording of this to give some context to people who are reading the article without having much background. JMiall₰ 21:29, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

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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. Popular prints such as Plum Park in Kameido were produced in the tens of thousands at a low individual cost. After the opening up of Japan in 1853, they found a following in Europe, where they had a significant influence on the Impressionist artists such as Vincent van Gogh.

See Van Gogh's derivative versionPrint: Hiroshige