Edo—now modern-day Tokyo—was, in the nineteenth century, the largest city in the world; it was also the lifelong home of artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797￯﾿ﾽ1858). At the age of sixty, he produced the renowned One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, a series of brightly colored woodblock landscape prints. The work incorporated radical stylistic innovations, including the technique of enlarging framing elements against a distant background and a vertical format rather than the traditional horizontal style used in the West for landscapes. Within two decades of its completion, the series had achieved such fame that van Gogh was using it as a pattern for his oil studies. Reproduced in this calendar are twelve of Hiroshige￯﾿ﾽs monumental landscapes of Edo.