Key block for a print from the series "Toto meisho" (Famous Views of the Eastern Capital)
Utagawa Sadahide
undated (c. 1850s)
Medium
Color woodblock print, ôban
Dimensions
Paper and block: 27.8 × 38.5 cm (11 × 15 3/16 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
152843
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...