Hiroshige, Ando or Utagawa (1797-1858)

Creator details

Name: Hiroshige, Ando or Utagawa (1797-1858)
Nationality: Japanese
Biography: Ando or Utagawa Hiroshige (b. 1797 d. 1858) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, he is understood to be the final great master of that tradition. The focus of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was femininity, actors and scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868).

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Assets (1927 in total)

Drum Bridge and Setting Sun Hill at Meguro, 1857 (colour woodblock print)

Tatsuta River, Yamato Province (woodblock print)

View of the Naruto whirlpools at Awa, from the series 'Rokuju-yoshu Meisho zue' (Famous Places of the 60 and Other Provinces) (colour woodblock print)

View of Mount Haruna in the Snow, 1853 (woodblock print)

Night time view of Saruwaka Street, from 'Meisho Edo Hyakkei' (One Hundred Views of Edo) (colour woodblock print)

Go-Kanosho, Higo Province (woodblock print)

The monkey bridge in the Kai province, 1853 (colour woodblock print)

Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake (colour woodblock print)

Commodore Perry's Gift of a Railway to the Japanese in 1853 (woodblock print)

Full Moon at Seba, from the series '69 Stations of the Kisokaido', c.1837-42 (woodblock print) (see also 3941)

Awa province: Stormy Sea at the Naruto Rapids from 'Famous Places of the Sixty Provinces', 1853 (colour woodblock print)

Eagle Over 100,000 Acre Plain at Susaki, Fukagawa ('Juman-tsubo'), from the series '100 Views of Edo' ('Meisho Edo hyakkei') 1857, (colour woodblock print) (see 65424)

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