One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is actually 118 woodblock landscape scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo by the artist Ando Hiroshige, and it is considered one of the greated achievements in Japanese art. It celebrates the Japanese culture at the end of the shogunate.
Landscape designer and garden blogger Susan Cohan has taken the Views of Edo as inspiration for her own attention to the world around her.
Wondering what she would have learned if she had paid close attention to her garden over the last 10 years, Cohen, who works out of Chatham, N.j., has resolved to record her observations every Monday for the next year.
"I believe I know intimately still has something more to teach me–not so much about gardening, but about creativity and how to see," she writes.
It is a space just 11 feet wide and 45 feet long. Much smaller that Tokyo. Susan Cohen wonders, as do I, what it has to teach her.
Her observations will include words and images and, she hopes, keep her from being distracted by the next shiny object.
