#ando hiroshige

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Ando (Utagawa) Hiroshige

(1797-1858)

"Nihonbashi Bridge in Snow" from the "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital Series," circa 1840

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Hiroshige Utagawa III ( Andō Tokubei (安藤徳兵).)

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"Hyakuneko Gafu"

Meiji Period

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Imagine building a fake mountain just so people could pretend to climb Fuji without leaving the city. That's exactly what Edo-period entrepreneurs did - and Ando Hiroshige made it the subject of one of the most quietly radical compositions in ukiyo-e history. In "New Fuji, Meguro" from his One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1857), Hiroshige puts the knockoff in the foreground and the real thing in the back. That steep green miniature Fuji dominates the left half of the print, dwarfing the actual snow-capped peak on the horizon. The twin triangles - artificial and authentic - force you to ask which one matters more. The tiny figures on top of the fake summit stand gazing outward, while we gaze at them. Hiroshige flipped the hierarchy of nature and spectacle in ways Baudrillard would have recognized instantly. Prussian blue imported from Europe, a coral bokashi glow at the horizon, full-crowned sakura lining the foreground - this wasn't tradition. This was a dying master (gone by 1858) burning every rule about depth, scale, and subject. The Impressionists later lost their minds over these prints. Van Gogh owned copies of this exact series. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

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Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Fish, 19th century, woodblock print, Trinity College Art Collection (JSTOR)

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Did some collage/found poetry in a planner going unused, inspired by Tokyo Weekender. Happy cherry blossom season!

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Ando Hiroshige, ‘Nihonbashi Bridge in Snow’, from the series of ‘The famous places of the Eastern Capital’, 1839/1842

This ukiyo-e print is by one of the greatest and probably the most famous of all the Japanese ukiyo-e artists, Ando Hiroshige who lived from 1797 to 1858. It is on a postcard, probably from the early 1900’s.

The print, probably from between 1839 and 1842 was first in this series of fifteen prints and features four of the iconic places in Edo, namely Nihonbashi Bridge, Edo Castle, the Fish Market and in the distance Mt. Fuji.

Fuji is impossible to see from that place but artists then employed artistic licence and painted, as they say with the inner eye! I really love this scene depicting all the early morning bustle of everyday life.

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Rain in the Seido Hall and Shohei Bridge over the Kanda River, Hiroshige, 1857