川豊春画 「浮絵境町葺屋町顔見世夜芝居之図」|Perspective Print (Uki-e) of the Theaters in Sakaichō and Fukiyachō on Opening Night
ca. 1780
Medium
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper; horizontal ōban
Dimensions
10 x 14 3/4 in. (25.4 x 37.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1914
Accession Number
JP192
Tags
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...