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Hiroshige
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Hi·ro·shi·ge  (hîr-shg, hrô-shg), Ando 1797-1858.
Japanese artist who captured the serenity of his country's landscape with his superbly composed color woodblock prints, including Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido (1832).
Hiroshige [ˌhɪərəʊˈʃiːgeɪ]
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(Biographies / Hiroshige, Ando (1797-1858) M, Japanese, ARTS AND CRAFTS: artist) Ando (ˈɑːndəʊ). 1797-1858, Japanese artist, esp of colour wood-block prints
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The Hiroshige Ando Museum employs a similar strategy, though it appears at first sight to be nothing more than an utterly simple rectilinear, steel-framed shed of cedar slats, with a public right of way cutting through one end to divide the shop and cafe on the left from the galleries to the right.
OPTICAL ILLUSIONS by WEBB, MICHAEL / The Architectural Review
Kengo Kuma's museum to house work by the great ukiyoe artist Hiroshige Ando also reinterprets traditional building techniques to harnesses light in an exquisitely lyrical way.
October by The Architectural Review
 
 
 
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