Utagawa Hiroshige was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who brought landscape to the forefront of woodblock printing. His two landmark series — 'The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō' and 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo' — transformed how artists depicted rain, mist, moonlight, and snow. His flattened perspectives and bold cropping directly inspired the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, especially Van Gogh, who copied his prints in oil.
