Utagawa Hiroshige, The Plum Garden of Kameido, Sheet 30 from the series: 100 famous views of Edo, color woodcut, Total: Height: 34.00 cm; Width: 22.50 cm, Signature: Hiroshige ga ¼s­«?, Publisher: Uoya Eikichi, censorship stamp, date stamp, printmaking,printing, trees, bushes, gardens and parks, plum, Tokyo, Edo period, Utagawa Hiroshige is, along with Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), one of the great landscape actors in 19th century Japanese woodblock printmaking. Century. This print of Kameidos Plum Garden shows the branches of a tree in the foreground, like a silhouette through which one can see into a garden. This picture became famous in Europe through the oil color copy by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). The painter was enthusiastic about the bold picture details, the composition and surface division of the Japanese masters and owned hundreds of Japanese woodblock prints. This print is from the series 100 famous views of Edo, todays Tokyo.