Hiroshige, the Creator: Debunking a Myth International Herald Tribune | August 2, 1997| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Souren Melikian
International Herald Tribune
08-02-1997
The myth of Japan as a nation of imitators is so deeply entrenched in the West that it will take more than one exhibition to debunk it. Yet, the question the visitor feels compelled to ask himself after seeing the admirable retrospective of Hiroshige's work, on view at the Royal Academy until Sept. 28, is whether Japan's artistic personality was not so vigorous that it was effectively incapable of imitating.

Born in Edo, as present-day Tokyo was called, probably in 1797, Hiroshige lived at a time when Western influence had long since ...

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