「横浜英吉利西商館繁栄圖」|“The Flourishing of an English Trading Firm in Yokohama”
9th month, 1870
Medium
Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Image (a): 14 1/8 x 9 5/8 in. (35.9 x 24.4 cm) Image (b): 14 x 9 5/8 in. (35.6 x 24.4 cm) Image (c): 14 1/4 x 9 5/8 in. (36.2 x 24.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Meiji period (1868–1912)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005
Accession Number
2007.49.234a–c
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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...