About the artist
Hiroshige gained prominence with his innovative series of woodblock prints, "The 53 Stations of the Tokaido", presenting an enchanting journey along the highway connecting Edo and Kyoto. The blossoming interest in travel art and Hiroshige's mastery in kacho-e (bird-and-flower pictures) propelled him to become a leading ukiyo-e artist.
His fascinating prints, mirroring Japan's beauty and its citisens' daily life during the Edo period, resonated globally. They greatly influenced European Impressionists and Post-Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh. Hiroshige's life was tragically cut short in the Edo cholera epidemic of 1858.
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