Utagawa Hiroshige
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 -1858)
歌川広重
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great masters of ukiyo-e in the late Edo period, celebrated for elevating landscape into a genre of its own. Trained under Utagawa Toyohiro, he blended Japanese and Western techniques into serene, atmospheric scenes, culminating in his masterpiece The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō — work that later captivated Monet and Van Gogh in Europe.
