biography
pronunciation:
[hirohsheegay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1797–1858)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Edo (modern Tokyo), Japan. He is celebrated for his impressive landscape colour prints. His ‘Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido’ had a great influence on Western Impressionist painters, but heralded the decline of ukiyo-e (wood block print design) art. |
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