Hiroshige II – The Kiso Gorge in Snow, Shinano Province (1859)

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Hiroshige II – The Kiso Gorge in Snow, Shinano Province (1859)

“From the series One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei).

Born Suzuki Chinpei in 1826, it is said that he was born to a fireman, as was his master Hiroshige to whom he became apprenticed under the name Shigenobu at an unknown age. His earliest known work is the illustrations for a book called Twenty-four Paragons of Japan and China from 1849.

Hiroshige II produced a large number of commissioned works in the 1850s in the style of the elder Hiroshige, and often signed his work Ichiryūsai mon (“student of Ichiryūsai”, another art name of Hiroshige I’s), and from c. 1853 to 1858 simply as Ichiryūsai. In 1858, he married Hiroshige’s daughter Otatsu after the master’s death and inherited the Hiroshige name, as well as the names Ichiryūsai and Ryūsai.

The artist moved from Edo to Yokohama in 1865 after dissolving his marriage and began using the name Kisai Risshō. During this decade he produced a number of collaborative print series, particularly with Kunisada, who had earlier worked with Hiroshige. In his final years he turned mainly to decorating works intended for export, such as tea chests, kites, and lanterns. On 17 September 1869 he died at the age of 44.

Utagawa Hiroshige took on few students; Hiroshige II was the most successful of these. His works have often been confounded with those of his master, which they resemble closely in style, subject, and signature. Early Western scholars did not even recognize him as a separate artist.

Another pupil of the first Hiroshige, Shigemasa, later married the master’s daughter, Otatsu, and also began using the name Hiroshige; this artist now is known as Hiroshige III.”

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