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🗓️ 29 August 2025
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This week, we're covering Hiroshige's emergence as an artist, which took 20 years after he finished his apprenticeship in the Utagawa school. Why the long gap? And what changed to finally allow him to break out artistically?
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| 1:02.4 | Indeed.com slash show. Terms and conditions apply. Hello and welcome to the history of Japan podcast, episode 592, The Artist of the Open Road, |
| 1:30.2 | Part 2. |
| 1:32.3 | We last left Utagawa Hiro Shige, one of the greatest artists, not just of his generation, |
| 1:38.1 | but all of Japanese history, having been turned down by the first master he asked to |
| 1:43.1 | apprentice himself to, |
| 1:44.6 | something I will always find at least a little bit funny, |
| 1:47.7 | before finding that the second time was in fact the charm. |
| 1:51.9 | And I should say here, there are really two stories about Hiroshiige's origins, so to speak. |
| 1:58.1 | The first and more common one is the one I told last week that Hiroshi |
| 2:01.8 | I first approached Utagawa Toyokuni, the older of the two second-generation masters of the |
| 2:08.0 | Utagawa School of Uki-O-E, but Toyokuni turned him down. He already had too many students, |
| 2:14.0 | and, hey, what were the odds this kid was going to turn out to be one of the most revered |
| 2:17.5 | artists in Japanese history. |
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