Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

歌川広重 Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Ukiyoe artist of the late Edo period. Studied under Utagawa Toyohiro. Studied Kano school under Okajima Rinsai and Nanga under Ooka Unpo, and also adopted the Shijo school and Western painting methods to form a wide range of painting styles. At first, he painted beauties, portraits of actors, and illustrations. He is best known for his painting "The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō. Although he gained fame as a landscape painter, he also showed talent in flower-and-bird and hand-painted paintings. Influenced European painters such as Van Gogh.