Utagawa Hiroshige related products
Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797~1858)
Utagawa Hiroshige , also Ando Hiroshige was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist,
considered the last great master of that tradition.
Hiroshige is best known for his landscapes,
such as the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido
and The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaido
and for his depictions of birds and flowers.
The subjects of his work were a typical 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 periodd (1603–1868).
The popular Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series 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.