Utagawa Hiroshige A Japanese Ukiyo-e Artist
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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.

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 pleasure districts of Japan’s Edo period (1603–1868). The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige’s choice of subject, though Hiroshige’s approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai’s bolder, more formal prints. Subtle use of color was essential in Hiroshige’s prints, often printed with multiple impressions in the same area and with extensive use of bokashi (color gradation), both of which were rather labor-intensive techniques.

Works of Hiroshige

Wind Blown Grass Across the Moon – by Hiroshige

Selections from The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
Print 11: Hakone
Print 16: Kanbara
Print 46: Rain Shower at Shōno

Selections from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo and Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Edo, print 30: The Plum Garden in Kameido
Edo, print 63: Suidō Bridge and the Surugadai Quarter
Thirty-six Views, print 3: Sukiyagashi in the Eastern Capital
Thirty-six Views, print 27: Futami Bay in Ise Province

View of the Whirlpools at Awa triptych, 1857, part of the series “Snow, Moon and Flowers”

Followers of Hiroshige
Suō Iwakuni, Hiroshige II, 1859
Teppōzu Akashi-bashi, Hiroshige III, c. 1870
Dog stealing a workman’s meal from a snow Daruma, Hirokage, c. 1855–56