Utagawa Hiroshige
1797–1858 · printmaker · Japan
Arts and ideas55 years old in 1852
Utagawa Hiroshige or Andō Hiroshige, born Andō Tokutarō, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Edo, 1830s
- Who governs
- The Tokugawa shoguns still rule a country closed to most foreigners.
- Everyday life
- Edo is one of the largest cities in the world, and the Tenpō famine strikes in the 1830s.
- Arts and ideas
- Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and Hiroshige's Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō.
- Meanwhile
- In Britain the first passenger railways run, and France has a new king after the revolution of 1830.
Their life in their time
- 1797
- 183134 years oldThe Great Wave off Kanagawa
- 185356 years oldPerry's black ships arrive
- 185861 years oldDies
Connected to
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Claude Monet · collector and printmaker
1883 Monet's collection of Japanese prints at Giverny holds 48 by Hiroshige.
Source: wikipedia:Fondation_Claude_Monet
