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Ando Hiroshige 1797-1858 Hiroshige was born in Tokyo where his father was a fire warden. The position was hereditary and on his father’s death when he was twelve he took over the job. However he managed to study the art of woodblock printing in the studio of Utagawa Toyhiro. He made his first woodblocks in the tradition of Hokusai and quickly became well-known. He died of cholera in the great epidemic of 1858. His work was widely collected in Europe particularly by Van Gogh and Monet. |