Utagawa Hiroshige

born Edo, Japan, 1797; died Edo, Japan, 1858

BiographyUtagawa Hiroshige, born Andō Tokutarō, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, a master of the woodblock print medium. 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