Utagawa Hiroshige or Andō Hiroshige, born Andō Tokutarō, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
Memorial portrait of Hiroshige by Kunisada, 1858
Wind Blown Grass Across the Moon, by Hiroshige, probably around 1832
Hiroshige studied under Toyohiro of the Utagawa school of artists. Returning Sails at Tsukuda by Toyohiro, from Eight Views of Edo, between 1802 and 1829
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is a series of 119 ukiyo-e prints begun and largely completed by the Japanese artist Hiroshige, of Edo, the historical name for Tokyo. The prints were first published i
Hiroshige
…Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban…
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Drum bridge at Meguro and Sunset Hill, 1854 Hiroshige