Shigenobu hiroshige ii biography

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Hiroshige II (二代目 歌川広重, Ni-daime Utagawa Hiroshige, – 17 September ) was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e art.

shigenobu hiroshige ii biography

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Utagawa Shigenobu () was the chief pupil of the the second great master of the Japanese landscape woodblock print, Hiroshige.


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First used name Shigenobu; when Hiroshige died in , married his daughter and took the name Hiroshige II; about the marriage was dissolved and he retired to Yokohama and .
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Biography: "Kojima Usui identifies Shigenobu (Hiroshige II), alias Suzuki Chinpei, as a member of a hikeshi-doshin family (fire-police) and born in (Bunsei 9).