UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858), color woodblock print, Japan, from 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo', 20th century.

Sudden Shower over Shin-Ôhashi Bridge and Atake (Ôhashi Atake no yûdachi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei). Sheet size 36,3 x 24 cm.

Not examined out of frame, faded.

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See Museum of Fine arts Boston, 34.292, 53.494, 21.9466, 11.36945, 21.9465, 46.1399;
Metropolitan Museum NYC, JP644, JP643, JP3174, JP2522;
Honolulu Museum, 22746, 06445;
Edo Tokyo Museum, 83200053;
Library of Congress, 2009631889;

More about Ando Utagawa Hiroshige

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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