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	The Hiroshige Ukiyo-e Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Hiroshige was born in old Edo (present-day Tokyo) in 1797, during the latter part of the Edo period (1603-1868).
		Hiroshige was orphaned in his twelfth year and succeeded to his father's post as fireman, studying painting all the while.
		Hiroshige was at the height of his artistic ability from around 1834 to 1840; his art was then at peak of its popularity.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~jwb/ukiyoe/raf_hiroshige_info.html (675 words)

	Japanese Woodblock Prints by Hiroshige Ando
		Hiroshige worked in the medium of "ukiyo-e”, which is Japanese for making prints that were widely distributed and his more than 5,400 works are still popular today.
		Hiroshige was born in 1797 with the name Ando Tokutaro.
		Hiroshige died in 1858 of cholera, and his death more or less coincided with the end of the woodblock printing era.
	www.asianartmall.com /hiroshigeandoarticle.htm (481 words)

	artist's profile HIROSHIGE
		Hiroshige was born in 1797, the time when Ukiyo-e was at the highest of its popularity.
		The artist was a prodigious painter as a child and at the age of fifteen, through the introduction of a certain book dealer, he became a pupil of Utagawa Toyohiro.
		Hiroshige's work is characterized by its realism and poetic atmosphere, and his best landscapes have the spontaneity of sketches from nature and are a reflection of an intensely personal experience by the artist.
	www.adachi-hanga.com /hp_english/en_artists-profiles_hiroshige.htm (200 words)

	Hiroshige - Den flydende verden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Hiroshige II was a Ukiyo-e printmaker who worked under the name Shigenobu until the death of Ando Hiroshige in 1858.
		Således gav Hiroshiges landskabsmotiver befolkningen i og omkring Edo (Tokyo) mulighed for at få indtryk af det mangeartede landskab, som kun de færreste selv havde mulighed for at opleve på grund af de ringe transportfaciliteter.
		Imidlertid er Hiroshige især kendt for sine mange landskabserier fra Tokaido, Kyoto og Omi-provinsen.
	www.aldus.dk /hiroshige (980 words)

	Hiroshige
		He was born in Edo (Tokyo) as the son of a samurai and fireman.
		Hiroshige Utagawa died at the age of 62 of cholera on October 12, 1858 in Edo.
		With an output of an estimated 5,400 prints, Ando Hiroshige was one of the prolific artists of ukiyo-e.
	www.artelino.com /articles/hiroshige.asp (870 words)

	Hiroshige
		Ando Hiroshige was born in Edo (now Tokyo) and at first, like his father, was a fire warden.
		The prints of Hokusai are said to have first kindled in him the desire to become an artist, and he entered the studio of Utagawa Toyohiro[?], a renowned painter, as an apprentice.
		His work was not as bold or innovative as that of the older master, but he captured, in a poetic, gentle way that all could understand, the ordinary person's experience of the Japanese landscape as well as the varied moods of memorable places at different times.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hi/Hiroshige.html (338 words)

	Hiroshige and the Tokaido
		Hiroshige was born in 1797 as the son of a low-ranking samurai in the service of the fire brigade assigned to Edo castle, the residence of the shogun.
		Hiroshige made sketches of each station and of spectacular or trivial views along the road.
		In 1862, four years after Hiroshige had passed away of cholera, an incident on the Tokaido, known as the "Richardson Affair" had led to a severe crisis in the relations of Japan with the Western powers.
	www.artelino.com /articles/hiroshige-tokaido.asp (1287 words)

	Hiroshige - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hiroshige was born in 1797 and named "Andō Tokutarō" in the Yayosu barracks, just east of Edo Castle in the Yaesu area of Edo (present-day Tokyo).
		In his declining years, Hiroshige still produced thousands of prints to meet the demand for his works, but few were as good as those of his early and middle periods.
		Hiroshige also influenced the Mir iskusstva, a 20th century Russian art movement of which Ivan Bilibin was a major artist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hiroshige (1704 words)

	RAYMOND HITOSHI HIROSHIGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Raymond Hiroshige was born on May 10, 1915 in Waialua, Oahu.
		Hiroshige was the first Japanese-American to receive a commission in the Navy Medical Corps.
		Hiroshige was a member of the American Medical Association, the Hawaii Medical Association, the Honolulu County Medical Society and the American Academy of General Practice.
	hml.org /mmhc/mdindex/hiroshige.html (211 words)

	Landscapes by the Japanese painter Hiroshige Ando
		Ando Hiroshige was born under the name of Ando Tokutaro in Edo (Tokyo) as the son of a samurai and fireman.
		In the ukiyo-e literature he is usually referenced as Hiroshige Ando.
		The first work by Utagawa Hiroshige was a book illustration published in 1818, when he was 21 years old.
	www.artonstamps.org /Countries/Japan/Hiroshige/hiroshige.htm (657 words)

	The Bohemian vs. The Bureaucrat: Hokusai and Hiroshige
		Hiroshige's family worked for the fire-fighters league, a job that Hiroshige inherited at the age of 13 when his father died.
		Later, as Hiroshige's artistic career developed, he supported himself by selling his art, but even as he ceased to be a bureaucrat officially, he remained an establishment man, a joiner, one whose tastes and sensibilities matched those of the group he represented.
		Hiroshige's diaries of his trips to Kazusa, Kai and Mt. Kano make it clear that he did not design the compositions of his prints on the spot as a pleine aire painter might.
	www.carnegiemuseums.org /cmag/bk_issue/1996/marapr/hokusai.htm (1903 words)

	HIROSHIGE’S 69 STATIONS OF KISOKAIDO
		Hiroshige was a wonderful Japanese artist and master that devoted his life to the creation of beautiful paintings, as well as teaching students the Ukiyo-e style.
		Hiroshige’s father was a firefighter who had the responsibility along with 32 other men to keep fire in the Edo Castle at bay.
		Hiroshige used traditional style of painting, consisting of kabuki actors, warriors, and of course, beautiful women.
	www.asianartmall.com /69stations.htm (486 words)

	19th century Japanese wood block prints by Hokusai and Hiroshige and 15th century ink paintings (Sumi-e)
		Hiroshige was born in the year 1797 and named "Tokutarō, within the city of Edo, to Andō; Gen'emon, a hereditary retainer of the shogun.
		Hiroshige would be born in the Yayosu barracks, just east of Edo Castle.
		Hiroshige would also take his master's name, which is how he came to be known as Utagawa Hiroshige.
	www.wisegorilla.com /images/japaneseprints/hiroshige.html (470 words)

	Ando Hiroshige (1797 - 1858) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Hiroshige, Untitled (Peacock and Peonies), circa 1833 - 1835
		Hiroshige, Untitled (Cuckoo and Iris), circa 1847 - 1848
		Hiroshige, #51 from Ogura Imitations of the 100 Poets, circa 1845 - 1848
	wwar.com /masters/h/hiroshige-ando.html (873 words)

	Hiroshige: A Shoal of Fishes
		Hiroshige has been so closely identified with picturesque, often breathtaking views of Tokaido that other prints besides his famous landscapes remain relatively unknown in the West.
		But Hiroshige also called himself Ichiyusai, and a few years later after Toyohiro's death, he changed his pen name to Ichiyusai.
		So prolific was Hiroshige that by the time of his death in 1858 at the age of sixty-one, he had produced well over 8,000 individual pieces, including 5,500 or more color prints.
	www.library.ucsf.edu /collres/archives/hiroshige (356 words)

	Hiroshige biography from shop4pictures.co.uk
		Hiroshige apprenticed himself to the artist Utagawa Toyohiro and for many years continued working as both a firefighter and an artist.
		Hiroshige became one of the most popular and prolific artists of his period, producing 5400 prints over his lifetime.
		Though Hiroshige's work was not as daring as that of Hokusai, the artist he so admired, Hiroshige was revered then and now for his poetic chronicles of daily life in 19th-century Japan.
	www.shop4pictures.co.uk /bios/hiroshige.html (208 words)

	Hiroshige
		We have here moved one mile north from the vantage point of Hiroshige's house in plate 73; the different angle can be gauged quite precisely by observing the leftward shift of the tall castle tower relative to Mount Fuji in the distance.
		Hiroshige has avoided, however, the witty contrivance of Hokusai's view, in which a bamboo pole pokes up from an unseen hand below and hangs a wet strip on the rack.
		This sort of match was unusual in Hiroshige's day, by which time the early place names of the city had either become obscure or inappropriate.
	www.ukiyoe-reproductions.com /html/pictures/lhiroshige3.html (588 words)

	Download Hiroshige Black - Linotype.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Hiroshige was designed in 1986 by Cynthia Hollandsworth of AlphaOmega Typography, Inc. The typeface was originally commissioned for a book of woodblock prints by the great nineteenth-century Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige, whose work influenced many Impressionist artists.
		The Hiroshige Black typeface belongs to the Hiroshige Font Family which is part of the Assorted Collection.
		Hiroshige is a trademark of Alpha Omega Typography.
	www.linotype.com /12864/hiroshigeblack-font.html (300 words)

	Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery - Hiroshige (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) is one of the most famous Ukiyo-E artists.
		This is considered one of Hiroshige's better river compositions.
		These are some of his characteristic bird and animal pictures: "wild duck and reeds in snow", "a white heron and iris", "a long-tailed blue bird on a blooming plum branch" and "sparrow, moon, and peach blossoms",
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~jwb/ukiyoe/hiroshige.html (414 words)

	Alibris: Hiroshige
		Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) holds an assured place in the history of world art as one of the greatest and best-loved masters of the wood-block print.
		The distinctive artistic styles of the people of New Ireland, an island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Melanesia in the South Pacific, are characterized by an appreciation for fine carving, a taste for vivid colors, and imaginative combinations of human and animal forms.
		Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) designed a series of seventy landscapes depicting the provinces of Japan between 1854 and 1856.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Hiroshige (598 words)

	Ando, Hiroshige
		Inspired by the expressive Landscape Prints of Hokusai, a young Ando Hiroshige decided to become an artist and in 1811 became a student of Ukiyoe master Utagawa Toyohiro.
		Hiroshige's debut series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital by Ichiyusai was published 1831.
		Hiroshige's first trip down the Tokaido route turned out to be amazingly productive; he made many hundreds of sketches on which he later based several other series: Famous Spots in Kyoto, Scenes at Famous Spots in Osaka and Eight Scenes of Omi.
	ikjeld.com /files/biographies/ando_hiroshige.html (279 words)

	CNN.com - arts & style - Architect borrows from artist to design Hiroshige museum - January 22, 2001
		Because much of Hiroshige's work depicts nature, Kuma believes his designs must be influenced by nature.
		The direction of the garden was crucial to him, and he insisted on a north-facing garden with its views of the mountains.
		Inside, the museum is divided into two galleries, one for Hiroshige's art and another for the work of local artists.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/STYLE/design/01/22/hiroshige.museum (432 words)

	Amazon.com: Hiroshige: Books: Matthi Forrer,Suzuki Juzo,Henry D. Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) holds an assured place in the history of art as one of the greatest masters of the wood-block print.
		Each plate is provided with a commentary by Matthi Forrer who, in an introductory essay, examines Hiroshige's life and work, assessing his place in Japanese art and making important revisions to the generally accepted chronology of his oeuvre.
		Other essays draw attention to aspects of Hiroshige's life and work which have often been overlooked and place Hiroshige and his art in their social and political context.
	www.amazon.com /Hiroshige-Matthi-Forrer/dp/3791325949 (1592 words)

	Honolulu Academy of Arts - Enchanted Window: Hiroshige and Mount Fuji
		Thought to be the abode of the gods, it has been the source of literary and artistic inspiration from the earliest times to the present.
		In Hiroshige’s version, his artistic sensibilities were directed less at the manipulation of the natural scenery—a strong characteristic of Hokusai’s work and more toward the actual view and relationship of natural forms.
		Hiroshige created several other series including a horizontal format and another vertical travel series, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, that frequently included Fuji in the composition.
	www.honoluluacademy.org /cmshaa/academy/index.aspx?id=1405 (799 words)

	Hiroshige - A 200th Anniversary Tribute on Stamps
		The last great figure of the Ukiyo-e, or popular, school of printmaking, he transmuted everyday landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes that made him even more successful commercially than his contemporary, Hokusai.
		Ando Hiroshige was born in Edo (now Tokyo) and at first, like his father, was a samurai fire warden, one of the hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa shoguns.
		The prints of Hokusai are said to have first kindled in him the desire to become an artist, and he suffered the lesser samurai's proverbial poverty.
	www.artonstamps.org /Painters/Hiroshige/hiroshige.htm (450 words)

	Randall Antiques and Fine Arts: Hiroshige III Gallery
		Both Hiroshige II and Hiroshige III were pupils of the great Utagawa Hiroshige.
		After the death of Hiroshige I in 1858, Hiroshige II married his daughter, but the marriage was dissolved about 1865, after which Hiroshige II used the names Shigenobu and Ryusho.
		Ando Tokubei then married Hiroshige's divorced daughter and assumed the name of her former husband (Hiroshige II).
	www.rafa.com /HiroshigeIII.htm (252 words)

	Hiroshige Ando
		Many highly successful series would follow such as 'Hundred views of famous places in Edo' and his last and posthumously published series 'Thirty six views of mount Fuji'.
		Huge editions of his prints were generally made, and only the fine early impressions do full justice to Hiroshige's artistic talents.
		Hiroshige's work was very popular in the West during the late nineteenth century and definitely influenced the Western view of Japan.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/H/hiroshige.html (209 words)

	BBC - Painting the Weather - Hiroshige
		Inspired by the print-maker Hokusai, Hiroshige began training as an artist at the age of 15.
		A standard edition of Hiroshige’s prints numbered about 200 impressions.
		Any form of reproduction, transmission, performance, display, rental, lending or storage in any retrieval system of the images displayed on this website without the written consent of the copyright holders is prohibited.
	www.bbc.co.uk /paintingtheweather/csv/artist/hiroshige.shtml (138 words)

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