An American Mercantile Building in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shokan no zu)
Utagawa Sadahide
1861
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban triptych
Dimensions
37 × 75.7 cm (14 5/8 × 29 13/16 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
32423
About the Artist
Utagawa Sadahide · 1807–1873
Utagawa Sadahide (1807–c. 1873) was a Japanese woodblock print artist active during the late Edo and early Meiji periods, a time of extraordinary transformation in Japanese society and visual culture. He studied under Utagawa Kunisada, one of the dominant figures in the Utagawa school and a master of popular print design, and absorbed the technical conventions of ukiyo-e — the floating world of ac...