Scent tours: Hiroshige’s seasons, at the Brooklyn museum in New York

Immerse yourself in a multisensory tour ofHiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami)led by Jessica Murphy, a fragrance historian and manager of group experiences at the Brooklyn Museum. The Museum’s complete set of Utagawa Hiroshige’s100 Famous Views of Edo, a meticulously executed and beautifully preserved series of prints, is one of our greatest treasures. The series’ vivid colors, innovative compositions, and rich detail evoke daily life in mid-19th-century Edo (modern-day Tokyo), with an emphasis on locations where people gathered to observe the changing seasons.

In this guided tour, the viewing experience will be enhanced by pairing selected prints with scents specially created by Brooklyn-basedJoya Studio. Using our senses, we’ll reflect on the tension between natural and human-made elements in Hiroshige’s vistas of a rapidly changing city.

Thursday, May 23, 2024: 2-3 pm Thursday, May 30, 2024: 6:30-7:30 pmWednesday, June 12, 2024: 2:30-3:30 pmThursday, June 20, 2024: 6:30-7:30 pm