Three Travellers under a Pine Tree
Hishikawa Sori III
about 1790s
Medium
Color woodblock print; surimono
Dimensions
13.8 × 18.6 cm (5 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
81181
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Hishikawa Sori III
**Hishikawa Sori III** (also known as Tawaraya Sori or Rinsai Soji) was a Japanese ukiyo-e painter and print artist active primarily from the late 1790s to around 1813. He is best remembered as an early and successful pupil of the master Katsushika Hokusai, who bestowed upon him the artist name Hishikawa Sori in 1798 (the artist had previously worked under the name Tawaraya Soji). Sori III worked...