Comments on: 100 Views of Edo – Then & Now

By: Ukiyo-e – Woodblock Prints | Japan | Japan Travel | Nihon Sun

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:16:46 +0000

[...] by multi-color called nishiki-e (brocade picture) in the early Meiji period. Hiroshige’s 100 Views of Edo created during the first half of the 1800’s combined images of daily life in Edo, now Tokyo, [...]

By: Edo then, Tokyo now « Okonomibloggy

Edo then, Tokyo now « Okonomibloggy — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:54:50 +0000

[...] No Comments The Nihon Sun site takes some of Hiroshige’s “100 Views of Edo” and shows what they look like now. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Hiroshige, 100 Views of EdoNYTBR review of [...]

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:35:18 +0000

Very cool post. Crazy how some things have changed so much and other things have not.

By: Ollie Hall

Ollie Hall — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:26:40 +0000

What a fantastic post!

We visited some of these places earlier this year, and it’s interesting to see the image comparisons.

By: Shane Sakata

Shane Sakata — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:26:43 +0000

Thank you for the kind words, info (Chris) and temptation (Danielle). Putting together this post made me want to go on a photo hunt and recreate the whole series. Could be a lifetime project though but it would be an amazing way to learn about Tokyo’s history and evolution through time.

By: Chris (i-cjw.com)

Chris (i-cjw.com) — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:47:47 +0000

Great post, and nice work lining up their modern equivalents. It always brings a slight lump to the throat to see how the city has changed…

Fuji is immediately recognisable, but in case anyone is wondering, the twin peaked mountain in some of the plates is Mt Tsukuba in Ibaraki prefecture. It is one of the Hyakumeizan (Hundred Famous Mountains of Japan), and was once quite visible from Tokyo.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:04:19 +0000

Beautiful stuff Shane! I saw the ENORMOUS book with the magnificent coloured plates in it when I was in a bookstore recently – so tempted to save up for it despite that it would probably tick us over into the next shipping weight category all by itself!