Schrijvende buitenlanders in een koopmanshuis te Yokohama

About this artwork

Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

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...