Album of Landscape Paintings by Ichiro Yashima (Ichirō gafu) 一老画譜
Yashima Gakutei
1823
Medium
Ink and color on paper
Dimensions
9 × 6 1/8 × 3/8 in. (22.9 × 15.6 × 1 cm)
Classification
Illustrated Books
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number
JIB3
Tags
LandscapesBoatsMenWomenEating
About the Artist
Yashima Gakutei · 1786–1868
Yashima Gakutei (c. 1786–1868), born in Osaka as the illegitimate son of a Tokugawa shogunate samurai named Hirata, adopted the name from his mother's subsequent marriage into the Yashima clan. Little is documented about his early years beyond these familial ties, but he pursued artistic training under the esteemed ukiyo-e masters Totoya Hokkei and Katsushika Hokusai, absorbing their precision in ...