Hiroshige: artist of the open road at the British Museum: 'spellbinding and cinematic' - 5/5 Hiroshige was one of Japan’s most popular print artists during the Edo period and this new exhibition ...

Hiroshige was born Andō Tokutarō in Edo, now Tokyo, in 1797 to a samurai family. He was orphaned by the age of 12, whereupon he inherited his father’s role as a fire warden for Edo Castle.

Born into "a low-ranking samurai family" in Edo (now Tokyo), Hiroshige became renowned for his "lyrical and atmospheric colour-woodblock prints". Like other artists of the "floating world" ...

Van Gogh’s other painting directly inspired by Japanese art was based on Sudden Shower over Ohashi and Atake (1857), another Edo view. Hiroshige has depicted the riverscape from three viewpoints ...

A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers.

Publisher Hanzō has tapped into this reputation, recreating famous works by masters like Hokusai and Hiroshige that feature Doraemon and friends romping through Edo (now Tokyo).

One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: Procession for the Tori-no-ichi Festival, Asakusa-tanbo (1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige, a popular work at the exhibition portraying a cat looking out through a window.

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: The Definitive Collector's Edition, by Andreas Marks. 320 pages, TUTTLE PUBLISHING, Nonfiction.

Utagawa Hiroshige, “Asakusa Kinryūzan,” from the series “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” (Meisho Edo hyakkei), 1858. Color woodblock print (nishiki-e), ōban ...

Years later, the Ansei Edo Earthquake strikes the city. Scenes of devastation compels Hiroshige to paint landscapes that were lost in "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo." ...

Hiroshige was one of Japan’s most popular print artists during the Edo period and this new exhibition shows how his visual language helped shape the arts Seba from the 69 Stations of the Kiso ...

Born into a low-ranking samurai family in Edo (present-day Tokyo), then the largest city in the world, Hiroshige became renowned for his lyrical and atmospheric colour-woodblock prints.