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(October 2012)| Memorial portrait of Hiroshige by Kunisada
|Birth name||Andō Tokutarō Edo (now Tokyo) Japan |Died||October
12, 1858 Edo (now Tokyo), Japan |Field||Painting and Printing|
|Works||The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō The Sixty-nine
Stations of the Kiso Kaidō Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重, 1797 –
October 12, 1858) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, and one of the
last great artists in that tradition. He was also referred to as
Andō Hiroshige (安藤 広重) (an irregular combination of family name
and art name) and by the art name of Ichiyūsai Hiroshige
(一幽斎廣重). Early life  Hiroshige was born in 1797 in the Yayosu
barracks, just east of Edo Castle in the Yaesu area of Edo
(present-day Tokyo) his name was "Andō Tokutarō" (安藤 徳太郎). His
father was Andō Gen'emon, a hereditary retainer (of the dōshin
rank) of the shōgun. An official within the fire-fighting
organization whose duty was to protect Edo Castle from fire,
Gen'emon and his family, along with 30