Japanese Artist Hiroshige- Benzaiten Shrine from Woodblock - Counted Cross Stitch Chart Specifics:

About This Chart:

• Size: 16 inches (224 stitches) by 10 inches (140 stitches)

• Fabric Grid/Size: This chart is designed for 14 count fabric

• Thread: This chart is designed for DMC Cotton Floss

• This is NOT a Kit-Purchase for graph-pattern-chart only

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, and one of the last great artists in that tradition. He was also referred to as Ando Hiroshige (an irregular combination of family name and art name) and by the art name of Ichiyusai Hiroshige, Hiroshige was born in 1797 and named "Ando Tokutaro" in the Yayosu barracks, just east of Edo Castle in the Yaesu area of Edo (present-day Tokyo). His father was Ando Gen'emon, a hereditary retainer (of the doshin rank) of the shogun.

Japanese painting is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese arts and it encompasses a wide variety of genre and styles. The art of painting is so intertwined with Japanese writing since both have traditionally been done with a brush. The history of Japanese painting has a long history of synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and adaptation of imported ideas.

 This is NOT  a Kit-Purchase for graph-pattern-chart only

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