Utagawa Hiroshige III.

Shimbashi station

Utagawa Hiroshige III. ( Japanese 三代 歌 川 広 重 , Sandai ~ , actually Gotō Torakichi ( 後 藤 寅 吉 ) or Torajirō ( 寅 次郎 ); born early 1843 ; died March 28, 1894 ) was a Japanese painter in the ukiyoe style in the 19th century. His stage name was Isshōsai ( 一笑斎 ), Shigemasa ( 重政 ), Shigetora ( 重寅 ).

life and work

Hiroshige III. was the son of a ship's carpenter and was raised by a restaurant owner named Momogawa ( 百川 ). He then became a student of Andō Hiroshige and called himself Shigemasa. After Hiroshige II separated from his wife, a daughter of Hiroshige, in 1865 and retired to Yokohama, Shigemasa called himself Hiroshige II, although strictly speaking he was the third. As an artist he is of little interest, but he is interesting from the point of view of his choice of subjects: his preference was for the railroad and its stations.

photos

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  Scene in America (however, an illustration in the Illustrated London News of Frederiksberg Palace near Copenhagen was used as the source )

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  Railroad at Shimbashi Station

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  Cherry blossom on the Sumida River

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  Pilgrims on Mount Fuji

Remarks

1. ↑ The sign 寅 ( tora ) in his first name indicates a "tiger year". The one fitting here ended according to the lunar calendar in February 1843.

literature

• Inagaki, Shin'ichi: Sandai Utagawa Hiroshige. In: Ukiyoe Nyūmon. Kawade, 1990. ISBN 4-309-72476-0 .
• Meech-Pekarik, Julia: The World of the Meiji Print. Impressions of a new Civilization. Weatherhill, 1986. ISBN 0-8348-0209-0 .
• Laurance P. Roberts: Utagawa Hiroshige III . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Utagawa is the family name, Hiroshige III. the first name.