Kakegawa, Ando Hiroshige Magnet

Kakegawa – From the series: Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi no uchi : 53 stations of the Tōkaidō Road. Print shows elderly people walking across the bridge at the Kakegawa station on the Tōkaidō Road. Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Japanese painter and printmaker, known especially for his landscape prints. The last great figure of the Ukiyo-e, or popular, school of printmaking, he transmuted everyday landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes that made him even more successful than his contemporary, Hokusai.