Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)


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Name (English): Utagawa Hiroshige
Short name: Hiroshige
Year of birth: 1797
Year of death: 1858
Short Description: "Utagawa Hiroshige (/ˌhɪəroʊˈʃiːɡeɪ/, also US: /ˌhɪərəˈ-/; Japanese: 歌川広重 [ɯtaɡaɰa çiɾoɕiɡe]), born Andō Hiroshige (安藤広重; 1797 – 12 October 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." - (en.wikipedia.org 30.11.2019)
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[Last update: 2019/11/30]