Born into the Andō family of Edo, officials in the firefighting service.
He lost both parents and inherited his father's firefighting post as a boy.
He became a pupil of the ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Toyohiro and the next year received the name Hiroshige.
Around this time he handed his firefighting post to a relative and devoted himself to art.
He published the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, scenes of the highway's post towns, a huge success. Rain, snow and the changing seasons are beautifully depicted.
With Keisai Eisen he produced the Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō, scenes along the Nakasendō.
He began issuing One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, the city's sights through the seasons, whose bold compositions later influenced European painters.
He is said to have died of cholera during an epidemic in Edo.
Watanabe KazanMizuno TadakuniMatthew C. PerryPhilipp Franz von SieboldUtagawa KuniyoshiTakashima ShūhanUdagawa YōanTokugawa Nariaki
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Based on facts found in textbooks and biographies. Uncertain points are marked as such.