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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige's choice of subject, though Hiroshige's approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai's bolder, more formal prints.  It was doubtless the more modest and refined taste of Toyohiro (his teacher) that helped form Hiroshige’s own style—and led his genius eventually to find full expression in the new genre of the landscape print.