Hiroshige wikipedia

Evening snow at kanbara
Utagawa hiroshige prints
Hiroshige ii

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Evening Snow at Kanbara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō"

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Deep snow covers the slope of Kanbara in the evening. Fresh flakes falling on the houses, trees, and mountains create a quiet that is broken only by the implied crunch of travelers' footsteps in the snow. This scene is imaginary because records indicate that Hiroshige traveled through Kanbara in the summertime, and such heavy snowfall would be unusual for this area of Japan.

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東海道五十三次之内　蒲原　夜の雪

Title:Evening Snow at Kanbara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō"

Artist:Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797–1858 Tokyo (Edo))

Period:Edo period (1615–1868)

Date:ca. 1833–34

Culture:Japan

Medium:Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions:8 7/8 x 13 3/4 in. (22.5 x 34.9 cm)

Classification:Prints

Credit Line:The Howard Mansfield Collection,

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Hiroshige

Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist

See also: Hiroshige (given name) and Hiroshige (crater)

Utagawa Hiroshige (, also;^[1]^[2]Japanese: 歌川広重[ɯtaɡawaçiɾoꜜɕiɡe]), born Andō Tokutarō (安藤徳太郎; 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 e

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Also known as: Andô Hiroshige, I, Hiroshige, Andô Hiroshige, Tokutarô, Jûbei, Jûemon, Tokubei, Ichiryûsai, Ichiyûsai, Ryûsai, Tôkaidô Utashige, Hiroshige I
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Utagawa Hiroshige is recognized as a master of the ukiyo-e woodblock printing tradition, having created 8,000 prints of everyday life and landscape in Edo-period Japan with a splendid, saturated ambience. Orphaned at 12, Hiroshige began painting shortly thereafter under the tutelage of Toyohiro of the Utagawa school. His early work of narrow, vertical landscapes picturing thatched houses nestled between cliffs and vignettes of birds perched on flowering branches shows the influence of Chinese scroll painting as well as the previously dominant Kanō school of Japanese painting.

Much of Hiroshige’s work focuses on landscape. Partly inspired by Katsushika Hokusai’s popular Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, Hiroshige took a softer, less formal approach with his Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (1833–34), completed after traveling that coastal route linking Edo and Kyoto. Mountains grow gre