Horinouchi Myōhōji Eho Mairi no Zu|Pilgrimage to Myōhōji in Horinouchi, Edo
ca. 1804
Medium
Two sheets of a pentaptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
H. 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm); W. 19 in. (48.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914
Accession Number
JP1006
Tags
About the Artist
Utagawa Toyohiro · 1763–1828
Utagawa Toyohiro (1763–1828) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist and painter who founded a major branch of the Utagawa school and is best remembered as the teacher of Utagawa Hiroshige, one of the greatest landscape print designers in Japanese art history. Born in Edo (present-day Tokyo), he studied under Utagawa Toyoharu, the founder of the Utagawa school, who was noted for introducing Western perspect...