For #MonochromeMonday, here are two aizuri-e* prints by Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858) from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston collection: 1. Bats and Branch 2. Cicada on a Tree Trunk Woodblock prints: blue ink on paper, vertical chûban size
*Aizuri-e (Japanese: 藍摺絵 "blue printed picture") usually refers to Japanese woodblock prints printed entirely or predominantly in blue....[Its] development was associated with the import of the pigment Prussian blue from Europe in the 1820s." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizuri-e












