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.

Utagawa Hiroshige’s “100 Famous Views of Edo" at the Brooklyn Museum. Clockwise from top left, “Kiyomizu Hall and Shinobazu Pond at Ueno,” No. 11; “Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi ...

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

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" ...

The Brooklyn Museum’s Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat.Takashi Murakami) is more than an exhibition of a renowned 19th-century artist’s woodblock prints. Utagawa Hiroshige’s ...

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 ...

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

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.

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).

View Comprising six oban tate-e prints three by Hiroshige I from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei 100 Famous Views of Edo by Hiroshige and Hiroshige II on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by ...

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 ...