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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE: UKIYO-E Art Book contains 375+ woodblock reproductions of Japanese landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes and still lifes with translated annotations and biography. Book includes Table of Contents, Top 50 Museums of the World, and is compatible with all Kindle devices, Kindle for iOS and Android tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing). Ando Hiroshige, known as the last great master of Japanese ukiyo-e art, was born Ando Tokutaro in Edo (now Tokyo) in 1797. Unlike the humble family origins of many ukiyo-e artists, his family was of samurai lineage, and moderately respectable, his father held the minor governmental office of Fire Warden for the area of the Yayosu Riverbank. As a child Hiroshige did show interest and talent for art; a fine painting he did at about nine years old survived until it was destroyed in a fire in 1923. Tragically, Hiroshige lost both of his parents within months of each other when he was thirteen. Earlier that year his father had passed the responsibilities of Fire Warden of Edo Castle on to him, and as this work gave him plenty of free time, he maintained it for fifteen years while also begin

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Author

Daniel Ankele, Denise Ankele

Publisher

Ankele Publishing,LLC

Published

2014

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction