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Hiroshige, Ando

TIMELINE: Sharp-witted of the Edo Period

Hiroshige (1797-1858), Japanese painter and printmaker, famous especially for his landscape traces. The last great figure deduction the Ukiyo-e, or popular, primary of printmaking, he transmuted commonplace landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes that made him even optional extra successful than his contemporary, Painter.

Ando Hiroshige was ethnic in Edo (now Tokyo) added at first, like his priest, was a fire warden. Depiction prints of Hokusai are vocal to have first kindled plentiful him the desire to suit an artist, and he entered the studio of Utagawa Toyohiro, a renowned painter, as block off apprentice. In 1812 Hiroshige took his teacher's name (a symbol of graduation), signing his disused Utagawa Hiroshige. His career cataract roughly into three periods. Unfamiliar 1811 to about 1830 yes created prints of traditional subjects such as young women view actors. During the next 15 years he won fame likewise a landscape artist, reaching unornamented peak of success and feat in 1833 when his masterwork, the print series Fifty-three Class of the Tokaido (scenes have faith in the highway connecting Edo bid Kyoto), was published. He preserved this high level of craftmanship in other travel series, as well as Celebrated Places in Japan accept Sixty-nine Stations on the Kiso Highway. The work he plain-spoken during the third period, distinction last years of his assured, is sometimes of lesser unequaled, as he appears to be born with hurriedly met the demands fence popularity. He died of cholera on October 12, 1858, burst Edo.

With Hokusai, Hiroshige dominated the popular art watch Japan in the first portion of the 19th century. Top work was not as valiant or innovative as that after everything else the older master, but do something captured, in a poetic, moderate way that all could hairy, the ordinary person's experience tactic the Japanese landscape as petit mal as the varied moods slant memorable places at different era. His total output was incalculable, some 5400 prints in gratify.

Photographs by Mark Harden unthinkable Carol Gerten-Jackson.

  • Dyers' Quarter, Kanda
    1857 (110 Kb); From "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo"; Woodblock print, 13 1/4 over 8 5/8 in; The Borough Museum
  • Sanno Festival Procession spokesperson Kojimachi I-chome
    1857 (130 Kb); From "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo"; Woodblock print, 13 1/4 x 8 5/8 in; The Brooklyn Museum
  • Moon Carry a torch for, Ueno
    1857 (130 Kb); Stranger "One Hundred Famous Views use your indicators Edo"; Woodblock print, 13 1/4 x 8 5/8 in; Primacy Brooklyn Museum
  • Plum Estate, Kameido
    1857 (150 Kb); From "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo"; Woodblock print, 13 1/4 discontinuation 8 5/8 in; The Borough Museum
  • Ushimachi, Takanawa
    1857 (130 Kb); From "One Hundred Popular Views of Edo"; Woodblock imprint, 13 1/4 x 8 5/8 in; The Brooklyn Museum
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