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HIROSHIGE became a disciple of TOYOHIRO of the Utagawa Group at the age of 15 and mastered paintings so-colled Nanga(Southern School of Chinese Painting)of the Shijo Group. In the beginning of his career, he made paintings of beauty or theatrical actors. In 1833, he published the masterpiece of woodblock prints Tokaido 53 stages and suddenly he got fame to became one of the greastest artists of woodblock print of landscape. Among his representative works, we can count also Kisokaido 69 stages,Famous 100 Edo Views, Famous Kyoto Views etc.


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Senju no Ohashi		Meguro Taiko Bridge		Bikunibashi sechu		Takanawa Ushimachi

The Other Artists

Family name Igusa.Personal name.Magosaburo.Studio names.Ichiyusai,Chooro, etc.Distinguished disciple of Toyokuni I Period of production: from the Bunka to the Man-en era.Highly spoken of as a painter of warriors.Produced landscape masterpieces characterized by western modes of expression.Also skilled in representing insects and fish. Yoshitora , Yoshimune, Yoshiiku and Yoshitoshi were among his pupils, and all followed the methods of their master in a worthy manner. The most distinguished of them was Yoshitoshi.

Tiheiki yeiyu den (Heroic Stoties of the Taiheiki)

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Endo Giemon Masatada	Takuma Genbanojo Morimasu	Koayakawa Saemonnosuke Takakane
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Yobu hakkei Clearing weather at Horikawa	Yobu hakkei Homing Geese at the Northem Capital

The outline of the story
Title :Tametomo rescued by tengu from Sanuki-no-in
The warlord Tametomo, his wife, his child, his lieutenants and soldiers were on their way to Kyoto on boats to fight against the Heike clan. On the way, they were caught in a big typhoon. In order to calm down the god of sea ,Tametomos wife dived into the sea. However, their boats wrecked and were drifting in the sea.The warlord Tametomo lost almost all his men and the only child... He was so sad that he tried to kill himself, but tengus suddenly appeared and rescued him.On the other hand, one of his lieutenants found Tametomos child, but still drifting .Then a huge shark came and attacked them. But the spirits of Tametomos dead lieutenants possessed the shark and saved their lives.

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Tametomo rescued by tengu
from Sanukino-in
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Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)

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Fuzoku Sanjuni-so Shidaranasaso		France Ohminato Shokoku Kouekizu (Triptych)

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Kabuki Actor
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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Hazaemon		Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Kyuzo		Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke

Yoshitora

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Triptych of Warriors

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