A Collection of Sketches
1751
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
Each: 10 1/2 × 7 1/4 × 3/8 in. (26.7 × 18.4 × 1 cm)
Classification
Illustrated Books
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936
Accession Number
JIB125a–c
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Sesshosai
Sesshosai, also known as Terai Shigefusa, was a Japanese artist active during the mid-to-late Edo period, primarily in Osaka. His career spanned from the late 1740s into the 1780s, a time when woodblock printing flourished as a popular medium for illustrated books and ukiyo-e imagery. Little is recorded about his early life or formal training, but he emerged as a skilled designer of printed volume...