歌川国芳画 「高祖御一代略図  佐州塚原雪中」|Concise Illustrated Biography of Monk Nichiren: In Snow at Tsukahara on Sado Island

歌川国芳画 「高祖御一代略図  佐州塚原雪中」|Concise Illustrated Biography of Monk Nichiren: In Snow at Tsukahara on Sado Island by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

Oban: H. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm); W. 14 11/16 in. (37.3 cm)

Classification

Prints

Culture & Period

Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1922

Accession Number

JP1422

Tags

Human FiguresTreesRainSnow

About the Artist

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · 17971861

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...

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