Hiroshige Ando

(pseudonym, Hiroshige Utagawa). Born 1797 in Edo (present-day Tokyo); died there Oct. 12, 1858. Japanese woodcut engraver of the ukiyo-e school.

Hiroshige traveled extensively about Japan. He produced numerous series of colored landscapes, including Ten Views of the Eastern Capital (1827), 53 Stages of the Tokaido (1833–34), More Than 60 Views of the Provinces (1853–56), 36 Views of Mount Fuji (1854–58), and 100 Views of Edo (1856–58).

Hiroshige rendered space in a distinctive manner, frequently stressing a prominent detail in the foreground and treating the distant landscape more softly. He also made use of linear perspective. His exquisitely lyrical landscapes usually depict people going about their everyday tasks. Hiroshige had an important influence on the European landscape of the impressionist and postimpressionist schools.

REFERENCES

Dashkevich, V. Khirosige. Leningrad, 1974.
Robinson, B. W. Hiroshige. London, 1964.

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The Hiroshige Ando Museum employs a similar strategy, though it appears at first sight to be nothing more than an utterly simple rectilinear, steel-framed shed of cedar slats, with a public right of way cutting through one end to divide the shop and cafe on the left from the galleries to the right.

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Kengo Kuma's museum to house work by the great ukiyoe artist Hiroshige Ando also reinterprets traditional building techniques to harnesses light in an exquisitely lyrical way.