『横浜異 人商館座敷之図』|Drawing Room of a Foreign Business Establishment in Yokohama

『横浜異 人商館座敷之図』|Drawing Room of a Foreign Business Establishment in Yokohama by Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide

Medium

Center and right sheets of a triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

Image: 13 7/8 × 18 1/4 in. (35.2 × 46.4 cm) Mat: 18 3/4 × 23 1/4 in. (47.6 × 59.1 cm)

Classification

Prints

Culture & Period

Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959

Accession Number

JP3179

Tags

MenWomenFoodMusical InstrumentsServants

About the Artist

Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide · 18071873

Utagawa Sadahide was born Hashimoto Kenjirō in 1807 in Fusa Province, in the area of modern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. In the 1820s he entered the studio of the enormously prolific and influential master Utagawa Kunisada, becoming one of Kunisada's most prominent pupils and adopting the studio name Sadahide along with the Utagawa school's celebrated lineage. By 1828 his name appeared on a monument l...

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