Utagawa Hiroshige III (1842/1843–1894) was born Gotō Torakichi, the son of a shipbuilder in the Fukugawa district of Edo. He first studied as a teenager with Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797–1858) until the master's death. He was given the artistic name Shigemasa. In 1867, after Hiroshige II, a fellow pupil of the original Hiroshige, divorced the master's daughter Otatsu, Gotō married her and initially took on the name Hiroshige II, but by 1869 he decided to call himself Hiroshige III.
