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Donald D. Walker Collection,
JAPANESE WOODCUT PRINTS
ANDO HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Ando Hiroshige is represented in the Walker collection by 137 compositions, with 12 multiple impressions, for a total of 149 prints dated from 1833 to 1858; 50 of these are fan folded into a book format called a gajō. Ando Hiroshige is considered one of the last great masters of the ukiyo-e tradition. Works by this artist are the most numerous of those collected by Frank Lloyd Wright and later acquired by Donald Walker.

The u-kyioe are listed chronologically then alphabetically by Japanese title. Because of the large number of works by this artist, they have been arranged into 10 galleries. A permanent link is provided to the description page for each print at the Library of Congress (LOC) where high resolution digital files are also available. The ukiyo-e found in the Gajō icchō album are again presented in 2 additional galleries in order of their sequence in the bound volume.

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Ando Hiroshige print Fujieda Ando Hiroshige print Hara

Prints (9): Gallery 1 (approximated date between 1833 and 1844)

Ando Hiroshige print Gotenyama hanazakari no zu Ando Hiroshige print Sumidagawa no zu

Prints (15): Gallery 2 (approximated date between 1838 and 1844)

Ando Hiroshige print Takanawa no kihan Ando Hiroshige print Futagawa

Prints (9): Gallery 3: (approximated date between 1844 and 1858)

Ando Hiroshige print Dewa, mogamigawa, gassan enbō 2 Ando Hiroshige print Hida, kayo watashi Ando Hiroshige print Noto, taki no ura

Prints (12): Gallery 4: 1848 and 1853

Ando Hiroshige print Tajima Ando Hiroshige print Hodogaya Ando Hiroshige print Hihonbashi

Prints (14): Gallery 5: 1854 and 1855

Ando Hiroshige print Senju no oubashi 1 Ando Hiroshige print Suruga-chō Ando Hiroshige print Yushima tenjin sakaue chōbō

Prints (18): Gallery 6: 1856

Ando Hiroshige print Asakusa tanbo torinomachi mōde Ando Hiroshige print Bikunibashi setchū Ando Hiroshige print Eitaibashi tukudajima

Prints (22): Gallery 7: 1857, part 1

Ando Hiroshige print Tsuki no misaki Ando Hiroshige print Suidōbashi surugadai Ando Hiroshige print Zōjōji tō akabane

Prints (20): Gallery 8: 1857, part 2

Ando Hiroshige print Boushū hota no kaigan Ando Hiroshige print Kōnodai tonegawa Ando Hiroshige print Mokuroku title page and contents

Prints (20): Gallery 9: 1858, part 1

Ando Hiroshige print Suruga Satta no kaijō Ando Hiroshige print Tōto ochanomizu Ando Hiroshige print Ueno yamashita

Prints (10): Gallery 10: 1858, part 2

Gajō icchō

A gajō is a bound album of fan-folded prints. This volume contains 50 prints selected from Meisho edo hyakkei, or "100 Famous Views of Edo," which was published by Hiroshige between 1868 and 1858. Although the individual prints also appear in the chronologically arranged galleries, they are here arranged in the sequence found in the Gajō icchō.

Ando Hiroshige print Tsuki no misaki Ando Hiroshige print Yotsuya naitō shijuku 2 Ando Hiroshige print Atagoshita yabukōji

Prints (25): Gajō icchō (Part 1)

Ando Hiroshige print Minowa kanasugi mikawashima Ando Hiroshige print Meguro taikobashi yūhinooka Ando Hiroshige print Fukagawa mannenbashi

Prints (25): Gajō icchō (Part 2)