Hiroshige and Japanese Landscapes

Tourist Library 5

Hiroshige and Japanese Landscapes
by Yone Noguchi (野口米次郎)

Tourist Library 5
Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways, 1934

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TOURIST LIBRARY: 5

HIROSHIGE
AND
JAPANESE LANDSCAPES

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TOURIST LIBRARY

Volumes already published

1 TEA CULT OF JAPAN By Y. Fukukita, A. B.
2 JAPANESE NOH PLAYS By Prof. T. Nogami
3 SAKURA (Japanese Cherry) By Dr. M. Miyoshi
4 JAPANESE GARDENS By Prof. M. Tatsui
5 HIROSHIGE AND JAPANESE LANDSCAPES By Yone Noguchi

Volumes in Preparation

6 THE JAPANESE DRAMA
7 JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE By Dr. H. Kishida
8 HOT SPRINGS IN JAPAN By Dr. G. Fujinami
9 MUSIC IN JAPAN By Prof. K. Sunaga
10 JAPANESE POTTERY By Prof. S. Wakimoto

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Colored print of a night rain: dense vertical streaks of rain fall in front of the huge layered crown of a pine that covers a small stone-walled headland, with the roof of a building and a gate of two posts and crossbeams at the right edge and tall masts beyond. The water around it is blue with wavy lines, and a small boat lies at the lower center with part of another at the right. Writing is there: a red title cartouche and a poem card at the upper left, and a signature and a red seal at the right. — NIGHT RAIN ON KARASAKI PINE TREE. (See page 61)
Mihara Collection

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HIROSHIGE
AND
JAPANESE LANDSCAPES

BY
YONE NOGUCHI

BOARD OF TOURIST INDUSTRY
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

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Printed in Japan

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EDITORIAL NOTE

It is a common desire among tourists to learn something of the culture of the countries they visit as well as to see their beautiful scenery. To see is naturally easier than to learn, but flying visits merely for sightseeing hardly furnish the time or opportunity for more than a casual glimpse of the culture of any foreign people. This is specially true of Japan.

The Board of Tourist Industry recognizes the difficulty of attaining this high purpose, viz. to provide foreign tourists with accurate information regarding the various phases of Japan’s peculiar culture. It is endeavoring therefore to meet this obligation, as far as possible, by publishing this series of brochures.

The present series will, when completed, consist of more than a hundred volumes, each dealing with a different subject, but all co-ordinated. By reading therefore the entire series the foreign student of Japan may gain an adequate knowledge of the culture that has developed in this country through the ages.

For those who wish to follow up these studies with a closer investigation, bibliographies are appended, which we trust may be found reliable and authoritative guides in their study.

Board of Tourist Industry,
Japanese Government Railways

November, 1934

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Print of a seated man with a bald head, his face turned toward the viewer's left. He wears a dark robe with square crests over a checked garment, and his hands rest in his lap with a string of beads across them. He sits on a cushion with a flower pattern. Writing fills the top: a eulogy in columns above his head, and down the left side his death poem, signed Hiroshige. At the upper right are the artist’s signature and a square seal, and two small seals stand at the lower left edge. — Memorial Portrait of Hiroshige by Toyokuni the Third

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