Utagawa Hiroshige is one of the most famous painters of ukiyo-e from the Edo Era. Understanding Hiroshige’s way of thinking about landscapes is important because it connects us to the way that people in general thought about landscapes during the Edo Era. However, many researchers who study Hiroshige’s works do not analyze the words which he wrote. Therefore, this article considers how Hiroshige used nouns to describe landscapes. Hiroshige expressed various things by the word, “landscape”, and its various synonyms. For example, mountains, the sea, Mt.Fuji (which had been valued for a long time), ferries, ponds and rivers, cherries, Japanese apricots and other flowers, bridges, moats, gardens and lumberyards, fishing, making pottery, the excitement of the entertainment district, the view from altitude, the view of the moon, snow and fields, etc. These are some of the various things which were cultivated in the Edo region during the Edo Period. Hiroshige’s way of thinking about landscapes is similar to that of many today. Therefore, study of Hiroshige’s viewpoint about landscapes is meaningful.
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