Utagawa Hiroshige

Hiroshige Utagawa (Hiroshige Utagawa, Kansei 9 (1797) --September 6, 1858 (October 12, 1858) is an ukiyo-e artist from the Edo period. His real name is Shigeemon Ando. It was also called Shigeemon, Tetsuzo, or Tokubei. It was sometimes called "Ando Hiroshige," but Ando's real surname, Hiroshige, is the issue, and it is inappropriate to call both in combination, and Hiroshige himself calls himself that way. I have never done it.

Born in the Ando family, who extinguished the constant fire in Edo, he succeeded the family and later became an ukiyo-e artist. He became a very popular painter for woodblock prints depicting landscapes, and influenced Western painters such as Van Gogh and Monet.

Hiroshige was born as a child of Ando Genemon, a concentric mansion of the Yayosugashi constant fire extinguisher in Edo. Genemon was originally a member of the Tanaka family, and was adopted by the Ando family to welcome his wife. The eldest daughter and the second daughter, and the eldest son Hiroshige and Hiroshige had a third daughter. In February of the 6th year of Bunka (1809), his mother died and his father retired in the same month, and Hiroshige took over the fire extinguishing concentric position at the age of 13. My father died in December of the same year.

At the age of 15 in the 8th year of Bunka (1811), he tried to enter the gate of the first Utagawa Toyokuni. However, it was said that the students were full, and he was introduced to Toyohiro Utagawa (1774-1829). The following year (1812), he was given the name of Hiroshige Utagawa by taking one letter from his teacher and himself, and made his debut in the first year of Bunsei (1818) using the issue of Ichiyusai.

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