Literature: Hiroshige

Ando Hiroshige by Sandra Forty

Included in Daily Life, Visual Arts box, Literature box

• Description: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was born in Edo (renamed Tokyo in 1868) and began studying ukiyo-e woodblock printing at age 31. He is most known for his Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido 1832.
  For more information, visit: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/research/edo/hiroshige/

• Links
  • Woodblock Prints of Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

• Lesson Plans
  • Art of Japan – NCTA Ohio
  • Contemporary Japanese Relief Printing – NCTA Ohio
  • Japanese Floating Lanterns – NCTA Ohio
  • Japanese Printmaking – Ohio Japan Project

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  • Visual Arts:
    • Grade 4: 2PE, 3PE, 6PE, 1PR, 3PR, 4PR, 5PR, 1RE, 3RE, 5RE, 6RE
    • Grade 6: 1PE, 3PE, 4PE, 5PE, 1PR, 2PR, 3PR, 4PR, 1RE, 2RE, 3RE, 4RE, 5RE
    • Grade 7: 1PE, 2PE, 4PE, 6PE, 1PR, 3PR, 6PR, 1RE, 4RE, 6RE, 7RE
    • Grade 8: 1PE, 2PE, 5PE, 6PE, 1PR, 2PR, 3PR, 4PR, 2RE, 6RE
    • HS Beginning: 2PE, 4PE, 1PR, 2PR, 3PR, 4PR, 6PR, 1RE, 3RE
    • HS Intermediate: 1PE, 2PE, 3PE, 4PE, 1PR, 2PR, 3PR, 4PR, 6PR, 1RE, 2RE, 3RE
    • HS Accelerated: 1PE, 2PE, 3PE, 4PE, 1PR, 2PR, 3PR, 4PR, 6PR, 1RE, 2RE, 3RE