新板浮絵忍ヶ岡之圖|Perspective Print: Shinobazu Pond
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
H. 9 3/16 in. (23.3 cm); W. 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Accession Number
JP1601
Tags
Art Historical Context
Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Asian Art collection are delighted by *Perspective Print: Shinob Pond* (新板浮絵忍ヶ岡之圖), a vibrant woodblock print by Uawa Toyoharu, a pioneering figure in Japan's Edo period (1615–8). Created with ink and color on paper this horizontal ōban-sized print measures 9 3/16 × 13 1/2 inches, capturing the serene yet lively expanse of Shinobazu Pond Ueno, Tokyo. Teeming with human figures strolling bridges and boats gliding across the water, it evokes the "floating world" (ukiyo-e) of urban leisure and nature's beauty. Toyoharu, founder of the influential Utag...
About the Artist
Utagawa Toyoharu · 1735–1814
Utagawa Toyoharu (1735–1814) holds a foundational place in the history of Japanese printmaking as the founder of the prolific and long-lived Utagawa school, which would go on to produce some of the most celebrated names in ukiyo-e, including Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi. Born in what is now Hyogo Prefecture, Toyoharu moved to Edo, where he studied under Toriyama Sekien and later explored the Kano schoo...