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HIROSHIGE III, Utagawa (1842 - 1894)		Famous Places of Tokyo Suburban Districts ('Tokyo fuka meisho zukushi'): Eitai Bridge
		Signed:                      Hiroshige ga Published:                 1875 Publisher:                 Tsujiokaya Kamekichi Size:                           ôban tate-e (c. 36.5 x 24.6 cms / c. 14 3/8" x 9 1/2") Good impression, FINE color and condition. ref. no.: # 773344 Price: € 790.00

Utagawa Hiroshige III (1843-1894) was born Gotô Torakichi, the son of a shipbuilder in the Fukugawa district of Edo. He first studied as a teenager with Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797-1858) until the master's death. His early art name was Shigemasa. In 1867, after Hiroshige II (1826-1869), a fellow pupil of the first Hiroshige, divorced the master's adopted daughter Otatsu, Gotô married her and took the name Utagawa Hiroshige II, but by 1869, he had decided to call himself Hiroshige III.

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