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Utagawa Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige

1797 CE–1858 CE · Artist · Edo (Tokyo)

Utagawa Hiroshige, born Andō Tokutarō in Edo, was a Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock-print artist. Son of a low-ranking samurai fire warden, he inherited the post as a boy after his parents died, then trained from about 1811 under Utagawa Toyohiro, taking the name Hiroshige. He worked first in figure and actor prints before turning decisively to landscape around 1830. His series "The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō" (1833–34) and "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" (1856–58) established his reputation for atmospheric depictions of weather, season, and place. He took Buddhist orders late in life and died in Edo in 1858.

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