伝歌川豊春筆 蜀山人（太田南畝）賛 女達磨図|Courtesan as Daruma
ca. 1800; inscription ca. 1810
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Image: 29 1/4 in. × 10 in. (74.3 × 25.4 cm) Overall with mounting: 59 3/4 × 13 5/16 in. (151.8 × 33.9 cm) Overall with knobs: 59 3/4 × 15 3/16 in. (151.8 × 38.6 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615-1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Miki and Sebastian Izzard, 2018
Accession Number
2018.914.2
About the Artist
Utagawa Toyoharu · 1735–1814
Utagawa Toyoharu (1735–1814) holds a foundational place in the history of Japanese printmaking as the founder of the prolific and long-lived Utagawa school, which would go on to produce some of the most celebrated names in ukiyo-e, including Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi. Born in what is now Hyogo Prefecture, Toyoharu moved to Edo, where he studied under Toriyama Sekien and later explored the Kano schoo...