Snow-Viewing Entertainment
Utagawa Toyoharu
c. 1771
Medium
Color woodblock print; large oban
Dimensions
Paper: 38.9 × 25.5 cm (15 3/8 × 10 1/16 in.); Block: 37.5 × 24.6 cm (14 13/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
86967
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...