Real name: 廣重嘉之 (Hiroshige Yoshiyuki)

Effective period / Period of releases: 2001 - 2005

Japanese guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, noisemaker and producer

Born in Kyoto on September 9, 1959. Founded the seminal noise group Hijokaidan in 1979, and the independent record label Alchemy Records (2) in 1984 (with the late Naoto Hayashi).
Hiroshige has also run several businesses such as Jo's Sports Cards (Tokyo and Osaka), Alchemy Book Store (Kyoto 2000-2003), and the Alchemy Music Store (Osaka 1999-2008). In early 2009, he opened a fortune telling parlor in Osaka: Future Days.