Print Club members were treated to a tour of the Brooklyn Museum’s Utagawa Hiroshige exhibit by Joan Cummins, Lisa and Bernard Selz Senior Curator for Asian Art. Fully titled Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami), this exhibit displays the (more than!) 100 woodblock prints, published in 1856–58, featuring key locations in the city that would become Tokyo. Hiroshige (1797-1858) produced images of temples, bridges, plum trees, and pleasure districts, and represented all seasons, often using the bokashi technique to produce variations in the colors’ lightness and darkness. In addition to the original prints, kept in pristine condition after being bound in book form for years in the Museum’s library, contemporary paintings by Takashi Murakami are on view, which reenvision the Hiroshige works by expanding their scale and adding modern touches.