A branch cuts through a colorful print by Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige

Japanese ukiyo-e artist (1797–1858)

Born Andō Hiroshige, Utagawa Hiroshige was one of the most famous Japanese printmakers of the Edo period. Some of his most well-known landscape series are The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.

What does the term ukiyo-e mean in Japanese art? This video answers that question using the 17th-century woodblock print Plum Estate, Kameido from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige.