NHSF Blog: Hiroshige’s ‘Plum Garden in Kameido’
On 1 May 2025, The British Museum opened its first ever exhibition on Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printing tradition.
At NHSF, we are especially excited about this exhibition because it features some fantastic heritage science research, which has utilised Raman spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence, and imaging techniques to shed new light on Hiroshige’s prints. In this blog post, research scientist Capucine Korenberg specifically focuses on her findings on the colours in Hiroshige’s The Plum Garden in Kameido (1857).