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.