Album of Thirty Actor Prints
19th century
Medium
Album of 30 woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
14 1/4 × 9 5/8 × 1/2 in. (36.2 × 24.4 × 1.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914
Accession Number
JP210
Tags
About the Artist
Utagawa Kuniyoshi|Utagawa Kunisada · 1797–1861
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861) was born in Edo to the silk-dyer Yanagiya Kichiyemon, originally bearing the childhood name Yoshisaburō. From a young age, he assisted in his family's pattern design work, which sharpened his innate mastery of color and textile motifs that would permeate his later prints. At around twelve years old, his prodigious drawing skills drew the attention of the renowned Utag...