Hiroshige
(1797-1858), Japanese painter and printmaker. Ando Hiroshige
was born in Edo (now Tokyo). The prints of Hokusai are said
to have first kindled in him the desire to become an artist,
and he entered the studio of Utagawa Toyohiro, a renowned painter,
as an apprentice.
From 1811 to about 1830 Hiroshige created prints of traditional
subjects such as young women and actors. During the next 15
years he became a landscape artist, reaching a peak of success
and achievement in 1833 when his masterpiece, the print series
Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, was published. He maintained
this high level of craftmanship in other travel series, including
Celebrated Places in Japan and Sixty-nine Stations on the Kiso
Highway.
The work he did during the third period, the last years of his
life, is sometimes of lesser quality, as he seems to have hurriedly
met the demands of popularity. He died of cholera on October
12, 1858, in Edo.
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