Cat & Mt. Fuji Metal Bookmark

The inspiration for this bookmark is a woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige - Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival, No. 101 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.  As an artist, he captured time and mood with brilliant minimalism - a dawn sky, a solitary cat,  rice fields, Mt. Fuji in the distance, and a woman’s clothing. And he is witty, with a foreground of wallpaper of birds and background of flying birds.