Utagawa Hiroshige, Edo Period Ukiyo-e: Fox, Figures and Landscape

A work by Utagawa Hiroshige I, dating to the Kaei era (1848-1854) of the Edo period. This sheet is from Ryakuga Rissai hyakuzu (One Hundred Simplified Drawings by Rissai).

Currently housed in a simple A4-size wooden frame with acrylic glazing.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797, Kansei 9 - October 12,1858, Ansei 5, ninth month, sixth day) was an ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period. His personal name was Ando Juemon, and his childhood name was Tokutaro. He later went by Juemon and was also known as Tetsuzo and Tokubei. Although sometimes referred to as Ando Hiroshige, this designation combines his family name, Ando, with his artistic name, Hiroshige, and is therefore inappropriate. Hiroshige himself never used this form of his name.

Born into the Ando family, which held a hereditary position in Edo's permanent firefighting service, he inherited the family post before becoming an ukiyo-e artist. His landscape woodblock prints enjoyed widespread popularity and influenced Western painters, including Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet.