Ando Utagawa Hiroshige, after, three woodblock prints from two series, 20th century.
"46th station: Kameyama (A castle on a snow-covered slope)" 亀山 (Kameyama), image area 22 x 34.5 cm.
"5th station: Totsuka" 戸塚 (Totsuka), image area 23 x 34.5 cm.
From the series "The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō" 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi).
"Cherry Blossoms at Night on Nakanocho in the Yoshiwara" (Yoshiwara Nakanocho yozakura), from the series “Famous Places in the Eastern Capital" (Toto meisho). Image area 23 x 36 cm.
Frames 39 x 50 cm.
Not examined out of the frames.
Labelled "Japanese Gallery London" on the reverse.
Ando Hiroshige is one of the most renowned a Japanese painters born in Edo. He began his artistic career as an apprentice to Utagawa Toyohiro. After completing his training, Hiroshige took his teacher's name and started signing his works Utagawa Hiroshige. Hiroshige painted motifs from everyday life, and it is said that he decided to become an artist after seeing the works of the contemporary artist Hokusai. Hiroshige transformed ordinary landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes. He is particularly known for his beautiful landscape images in the woodblock printing technique and has painted portraits of young women and actors. His masterpiece is considered to be the work “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido.”
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