ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: An exhibit in New York offers a unique perspective of Japan. The artist is Hiroshige, and the work is more than a century old. Let's take a look.</s>ARNOLD LEHMAN, DIR. BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART: The exhibition is 100 Views of Edo by the Japanese artist Hiroshige. Because of the rarity and the extremely fine condition of his prints, they're not something that is able to be seen on a regular bases anywhere in the world.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just love the graphic nature of the work and the mysterious quality of the gradient values.</s>AMY POSTER, CURATOR, 100 VIEWS OF EDO. BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART: This exhibition focuses on the last great series of Hiroshige. Hiroshige's series was done between 1856 and 1858. We've chosen to arrange the exhibition by season, that is beginning with spring, moving to summer, fall and winter. So we have frozen in time this incredible moment in Japan's history. A careful viewer will notice that such elements as a Westerners pantaloons, a fashion from the West that was adopted readily. This print conveys the atmosphere of one of those wonderful rainy days in Edo, when you have the clouds gathering and a torrential downpour.
Exhibit in New York Offers Unique Perspective of Japan