Niroshige ll, “Thirty-six views of Tokyo” is done in the style Ukiyo-e which during the Edo period was a way for artisans to mass produce their art work. Ukiyo-e is the technique of woodblock, Ukiyo-e has serval different themes. It consist of Bijin ( beautiful women of the pleasure quarter) Portraits of actors, Famous landscapes, and Asobi-e ( erotica ). The Nihonbasi “Thirty-six views of Tokyo” is done in the Landscape tradition, which is portrayed in the title of the print. Landscape prints normally
time period, and both of the works create, through form, an intimate space between the piece's images and the viewer. Each of the two works of art are from a different period in time and from different places. Kusano Kanpei at Totsuka by Utagawa Kunisada dates from between 1786 and 1865 as part of a series of different prints. This piece from Japan falls in the Edo period, however the Master of the Straus Madonna's Mother and Child and Crucifixion, dating to 1380 falls within the Italian Gothic period