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Utagawa Hiroshige

1797–1858 · 19th century · Also known as Andō Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, the last great master of the woodblock print in the Edo period. He is best known for landscape series such as The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (1833–1834) and One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1856–1858), whose bold compositions and colour influenced European painters, including Van Gogh and the Impressionists.

Utagawa Hiroshige
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