Hiroshige
Japanese ukiyo-e artist (1797–1858)
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JapanHe turned ukiyo-e away from courtesans and kabuki actors toward something quieter: rain on a bridge, snow settling over a pine grove, the stations of a long road. His landscapes closed an era.
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Born Andō Tokutarō in 1797, Hiroshige entered a printmaking tradition dominated by urban pleasure scenes—beautiful women, popular actors—but followed Hokusai's lead toward landscape, trading boldness for something more poetic and ambient. His horizontal series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and his vertical One Hundred Famous Views of Edo built their power on subtle color: multiple impressions in a single area, painstaking bokashi gradations, labor that made weather feel alive on paper. He died on 12 October 1858, and scholars mark that date as the beginning of ukiyo-e's fast decline…
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