Fishing Boats at Tsukuda Island (Tsukudajima gyoshu), from the series "Thirty-six Views of the Eastern Capital (Toto sanjurokkei)"
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
26669
Art Historical Context
Behold *Fishing Boats at Tsuk Island (Tsukud gyoshu)*, a vibrant color woodblock print by Utagawa Hirosh II (Shigenobu), created in 1862 as part of the series *Thirty-six Views the Eastern Capital (T sanjurokkei)*. This oban-sized work captures the bustling fishing life off Tsukuda Island in Edo Bay (modern Tokyo), with boats laden with nets and figures at work under a vast, dynamic sky. Hiroshige, a devoted pupil and adopted son of the legendary Utagawa Hiroshige I, carried forward the ukiyo-e tradition of depicting "floating world" scenes from everyday Japanese life. Printed during the late...
About the Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) · 1826–1869
Utagawa Hiroshige II, born Suzuki Chinpei in 1826, was one of the most accomplished ukiyo-e artists of mid-nineteenth century Japan. He entered the studio of the celebrated landscape master Utagawa Hiroshige I — known for his iconic series "The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido" — and proved himself the most talented of the elder artist's few students. So highly regarded was the young pupil that...