Community: Views Around Town

Students will:

• Consider different elements, such as nature, the built environment, and human activity, that make up a community

• Look closely at three artworks from Utagawa Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo to learn about daily life in Edo (known today as Tokyo)

• Draw landscapes of their own town or neighborhood, inspired by Hiroshige

• Blank paper

• Colored pencils or crayons

• Online exhibition of the entire One Hundred Famous Views of Edo print series by Utagawa Hiroshige

• Visual organizer for student observations