i have a painting it is called snowfall at kambra.the painter name is andoh hiroshige i would like to no about

Answer 1

Hiroshige (1797-1858), Japanese painter and printmaker, known especially for his landscape prints. The last great figure of the Ukiyo-e, or popular, school of printmaking, he transmuted everyday landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes that made him even more successful than his contemporary, Hokusai. Hiroshige dominated the popular art of Japan in the first half of the 19th century. His work was not as bold or innovative as that of the older master, but he captured, in a poetic, gentle way that all could understand, the ordinary person's experience of the Japanese landscape as well as the varied moods of memorable places at different times. His total output was immense, some 5400 prints in all.

Is this your picture? http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/10/eaj/ho_JP2492.htm

I have given you some comparables.. however, it must be viewed by an expert (an appraiser, curator, auction house, etc.) to determine its authenticity as there have been countless methods of reproducing his extraordinary body of work including restrikes which were not produced by his own hand as well as lithographic copies. I hope this was helpful... and good luck!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshige
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hiroshige
http://www.castlefinearts.com/itemdetail.aspx?item=6663
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/10/eaj/ho_JP2492.htm
http://artwork.barewalls.com/artwork/product.html?ProductID=27037
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?screen=MySearchResults&saction=search&sFreeText=hiroshige
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r
http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?aid=2025717430&c=c&search=25213&GCID=s15100x001&KEYWORD=Ando+Hiroshige

Answer 2

Your beautiful color woodcut print - Night Snow at Kambara can viewed at http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/sampler/hiroshige.html.
It comes from a series that Japanese woodcut artist Ando Hiroshige made between 1833-34 called Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road. This series, in particular - and he made many others, of mountains and lakes dotted with small figures, seen at different times of the year and weathers, established him as the greatest printmaker among a group known as "ukiyo-e" or the "floating world". artists. These artists worked out of Edo (now Tokyo) depicting everyday life in the pleasure quarters of the city, as well as landscapes - which were Hiroshige's speciality.
Tokaido was the historic road in Japan that connected Osaka and Kyoto with Edo
I have a Hiroshige print - not as stunningly beautiful as yours - I believe it is worth about $1000 - but yours might be worth much more.