Seki: Portrait of Ikkyu (Seki, Ikkyu Osho shozo), section of sheet no. 12 from the series "Cutouts of the Fifty-three Stations (Gojusan tsugi harimaze)"
Medium
Color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet (uncut sheet: 1939.1297)
Dimensions
17 × 9.6 cm (6 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
33575
About the Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1826–1869
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), born Andō Tokutarō, was the last great master of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printmaking and one of the most influential landscape artists in history. Born in Edo (modern Tokyo) into a low-ranking samurai family serving as fire wardens, Hiroshige transformed landscape printmaking into a poetic meditation on nature, weather, and everyday life. His revolutionary approac...