Hiroshige ando biography

Hiroshige is widely associated with landscape and nature prints.

Alongside Hokusai, he is regarded as a leading figure in printmaking during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Hiroshige - Biography

Hiroshige Ando ( - October 12, ) was born as Ando Tokutaro in in Edo (modern-day Tokyo).

He was the son of a samurai and a fireman. Hiroshige is celebrated as one of the greatest masters of ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints), particularly renowned for his contributions to Japanese landscape art.

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At the age of twelve, he lost both of his parents. Two years later, in , Hiroshige joined the prestigious Utagawa painting school, which was led by the ukiyo-e master Toyohiro Utagawa at the time. In , he was formally granted the name Utagawa, thereafter identifying himself as Utagawa Hiroshige.

In ukiyo-e literature, he is commonly referred to a