Gokoku jinbutsu zue
Utagawa Sadahide
1861
Medium
color woodcut
Dimensions
251; 370
About this artwork
height 370 mm x width 251 mm
About the Artist
Utagawa Sadahide · 1807–1873
Utagawa Sadahide (1807–c. 1873) was a Japanese woodblock print artist active during the late Edo and early Meiji periods, a time of extraordinary transformation in Japanese society and visual culture. He studied under Utagawa Kunisada, one of the dominant figures in the Utagawa school and a master of popular print design, and absorbed the technical conventions of ukiyo-e — the floating world of ac...