Utagawa Hiroshige (aka Andō Hiroshige) (Japanese ukiyo-e artist) 1797 - 1858
Ōhashi Atake no Yūdachi (Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake), 1857
colour woodcut
36.3 x 24.1 cm.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C., United States of America
Ukiyo-e print shows pedestrians crossing the great bridge at Atake during a rain storm. No. 52 in the series Meisho Yedo Hiakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo), 1857.
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Hiroshige is best known for his landscapes and for his depictions of birds and flowers. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868).
Ukiyo-e, or ukiyo-ye ("pictures of the floating world"), is a genre of woodblock prints and paintings that flourished in Japan from the 17th through 19th centuries.
Hiroshige’s The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (1833–1834) and One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1856–1858) greatly influenced French Impressionists such as Monet. Vincent Van Gogh copied two of the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo which were among his collection of ukiyo-e prints.
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