"This volume presents sixty-seven prints of Hiroshige's Japan compiled from all the great series and famous views that the artist made, with the exception of the 'Fifty-three Stations on the Tokaido' which will be published in a separate volume. Also included is an authoritative biography of the gentle, sometimes sad artist and an analysis of the work that has made him one of the world's best-loved masters of art."--Backcover flap