Utagawa Hirokage
Illustration — Signature of Utagawa Hirokage reading Hirokage ga (広景画) Utagawa Utagawa Hirokage, also known as Ichiyūsai Hirokage, was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints, who was active from about 1855 to 1865. He was a pupil of Utagawa Hiroshige I. From 1860 to 1861, Hirokage designed the series of ōban size prints titled Edo meisho dōke zukushi (Joyful Events in Famous Places in Edo). His reputation is based primarily upon this series and his 1859 triptych Aomono sakana gunzei daikassen no zu (The Great Battle between the Fruits and Vegetables and the Fish).
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Utagawa Hirokage
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Illustration — Signature of Utagawa Hirokage reading Hirokage ga (広景画) Utagawa Utagawa Hirokage, also known as Ichiyūsai Hirokage, was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints, who was active from about 1855 to 1865. He was a pupil of Utagawa Hiroshige I. From 1860 to 1861, Hirokage designed the series of ōban size prints titled Edo meisho dōke zukushi (Joyful Events in Famous Places in Edo). His reputation is based primarily upon this series and his 1859 triptych Aomono sakana gunzei daikassen no zu (The Great Battle between the Fruits and Vegetables and the Fish).
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• Illustration — Aomono sakana gunzei daikassen no zu (The Great Battle between the Fruits and Vegetables and the Fish), woodblock triptych by Hirokage, 1859 • Illustration — Woodcut print shows a comical scene with a group of people walking along the bank of the Shinobazu Pond, with cherry blossoms and dwellings in the background. 1859 • Illustration — The Tiger of Ryōgoku from the series True Scenes, 1860
No. 22, Snow in Front of the Official Storehouses (Onkura mae no yuki), from the series Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho dôke zukushi). Dog stealing a workman's meal from a snow Daruma from the woodblock series Edo meisho dôke zukushi (Joyful Events in Famous Places in Edo) by Hirokage
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No. 28, View of Gomizaka in Tsumagoi (Tsumagoi Gomizaka no kei), from the series Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho dôke zukushi). Funny Ukiyo-e prints, Samurai is a stool in a public toilet.
Utagawa Hirokage · Museum of Fine Arts Boston
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