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Hiroshige

1797 - 1858

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Utagawa Hiroshige (, also US: ; Japanese: 歌川 広重 [ɯtaɡawa çiɾoꜜɕiɡe]), born Andō Tokutarō (安藤 徳太郎; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiroshige has received more than 1,066,431 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Hiroshige is the 10th most popular artist (up from 12th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Japan (up from 42nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Artist.

Hiroshige is most famous for his series of prints of the 53 Stations of the Tokaido, which were published in 1833.

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Hiroshige ranks 10 out of 125. Before him are Yoko Ono, M. C. Escher, Jusepe de Ribera, Hans Holbein the Younger, Victor Vasarely, and Anders Zorn. After him are Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, Jean Arp, Käthe Kollwitz, Roy Lichtenstein, and Theo van Doesburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Hiroshige ranks 8. Before him are Heinrich Heine, William I, German Emperor, Mary Shelley, Gaetano Donizetti, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan, and Adolphe Thiers. After him are Ghalib, Joseph Henry, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Charles Lyell, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, and Alfred de Vigny. Among people deceased in 1858, Hiroshige ranks 4. Before him are Robert Owen, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, and Robert Brown. After him are Rani of Jhansi, Matthew C. Perry, Johannes Peter Müller, Karl Thomas Mozart, Anton Diabelli, John Snow, Ary Scheffer, and Aimé Bonpland.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroshige ranks 40 out of 6,245. Before him are Lee Myung-bak (1941), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Itō Hirobumi (1841), Isao Takahata (1935), Emperor Kōmei (1831), and Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894). After him are Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Hiroo Onoda (1922), Morihei Ueshiba (1883), Takeda Shingen (1521), Takeshi Kitano (1947), and Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147).

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Among ARTISTS In Japan

Among artists born in Japan, Hiroshige ranks 3. Before him are Hokusai (1760), and Yoko Ono (1933). After him are Akira Yoshizawa (1911), Hasui Kawase (1883), Yoshitaka Amano (1952), Yoshitomo Nara (1959), and Tatsuki Fujimoto (1993).

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