Picture of Men and Women from Many Countries (Bankoku danjo jinbutsu zue)
Utagawa Yoshiiku
1861
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban triptych
Dimensions
36.6 × 72.5 cm (14 7/16 × 28 9/16 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
32372
About the Artist
Utagawa Yoshiiku · 1833–1904
Utagawa Yoshiiku (1833–1904) was a prolific Japanese woodblock print artist and journalist who lived through one of the most turbulent and transformative periods in his country's history, the transition from the Edo period through the Meiji Restoration. A student of the celebrated Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Yoshiiku inherited his master's taste for bold compositional drama and dynamic figuration, applying...