Chiryu: The Old Story of the Irises at Yatsuhashi Bridge (Yatsuhashi no kakitsubata no koji), section of sheet no. 12 from the series "Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi zue)"
Medium
Color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet
Dimensions
18.2 × 11.3 cm (7 1/8 × 4 5/16 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
33638
About the Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1826–1869
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), born Andō Tokutarō, was the last great master of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printmaking and one of the most influential landscape artists in history. Born in Edo (modern Tokyo) into a low-ranking samurai family serving as fire wardens, Hiroshige transformed landscape printmaking into a poetic meditation on nature, weather, and everyday life. His revolutionary approac...