The Tenno Festival on the Fifth Day of the Sixth Month at Yoshida,
No. 35 from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, colour woodcut, oban yoko-e, 23 x 35.5 cm, first published in 1847–52, 20th-century impression.
Minor wear. Not framed.
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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