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Hiroshige

1797 - 1858

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Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重) or Andō Hiroshige (安藤 広重), born Andō Tokutarō (安藤 徳太郎; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. 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. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868). The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige's choice of subject, though Hiroshige's approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai's bolder, more formal prints. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hiroshige is the 11th most popular artist (down from 10th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Japan (up from 40th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Artist.

Hiroshige is most famous for his series of prints of the 53 Stations of the Tokaido, which were published in 1833.

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Hiroshige ranks 11 out of 125Before him are M. C. Escher, Yoko Ono, Jusepe de Ribera, Hans Holbein the Younger, Jean Arp, and Victor Vasarely. After him are Joseph Beuys, Käthe Kollwitz, Luca Signorelli, Theo van Doesburg, Yves Klein, and El Lissitzky.

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Among people born in 1797, Hiroshige ranks 7Before him are Franz Schubert, William I, German Emperor, Heinrich Heine, Gaetano Donizetti, Mary Shelley, and Adolphe Thiers. After him are Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan, Ghalib, Joseph Henry, Paul Delaroche, Charles Lyell, and Maria Leopoldina of Austria. Among people deceased in 1858, Hiroshige ranks 6Before him are Rani of Jhansi, Robert Brown, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Robert Owen, and John Snow. After him are Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Johannes Peter Müller, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Karl Thomas Mozart, Matthew C. Perry, and Anton Diabelli.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroshige ranks 39 out of 6,245Before him are Emperor Kōmei (1831), Hattori Hanzō (1542), Jiroemon Kimura (1897), Isao Takahata (1935), Itō Hirobumi (1841), and Saigō Takamori (1828). After him are Sadako Sasaki (1943), Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), and Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147).

Among ARTISTS In Japan

Among artists born in Japan, Hiroshige ranks 3Before him are Hokusai (1760), and Yoko Ono (1933). After him are Akira Yoshizawa (1911), Yoshitaka Amano (1952), Hasui Kawase (1883), Yoshitomo Nara (1959), and Tatsuki Fujimoto (1993).