Tōkaidō gojo santsugi. Shirasuka. Plate No 33. From the series: Fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō Road., Utagawa Hiroshige, artist, Late 1830's, Japan, Utagawa (Andō) Hiroshige (1797-1858), was a renowned painter and print artist, who old-time authorities still hail as the last of the great Japanese print masters, surely short-changing his brilliant contemporaries Kuniyoshi and Kunisada, not to mention later artists, notably Yoshitoshi. A son of an official in the fire department, he was a pupil of Utagawa Toyohiro and also studied with Okajima Rinsai and Ooka Umpo. In the 1820s he was active in many areas: actor prints, warrior prints, prints of women, and more. He started producing landscape prints in the early 1830s, establishing his own unique style with the series Famous Places in Edo and Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Highway by the end of the decade. Several prints of the latter series are in Te Papa's collection. He continued to excel at views of famous places throughout his career and managed to express in great detail the poetic sensibility inherent in the climate and topography of Japan and the people who lived there. Hiroshige also designed many masterpieces in the genre of bird and flower prints, once again creating a world where poetry and painting combined.
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