# Kingfisher and Chinese Bellflowers, in Utagawa Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige designed this in the early or mid-1830s, aged about 33. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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## The work

- Date: early or mid-1830s
- Medium: color woodblock print
- Dimensions: Overall: 25.2 x 12.4 cm (9 15/16 x 4 7/8 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1920.164
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Utagawa Hiroshige](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/utagawa-hiroshige), Japanese, 1797–1858

Hiroshige was born into a family of Edo fire wardens and trained under Utagawa Toyohiro. His breakthrough came in the early 1830s with The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, scenes along the highway between Edo and Kyoto.

19 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Utagawa Hiroshige's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-utagawa-hiroshige?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Ukiyo-e](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/ukiyo-e?hang=749) (172 works)
- [19th-century Japan](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-japan?hang=749) (99 works)

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