View of Kanagawa on the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō kanagawa no shōkei)

View of Kanagawa on the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō kanagawa no shōkei) by Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide

Medium

Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

Image (a): 14 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (36.8 x 24.1 cm) Image (b): 14 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (36.8 x 23.8 cm) Image (c): 14 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (36.5 x 24.1 cm)

Classification

Prints

Culture & Period

Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005

Accession Number

2007.49.290a–c

Tags

RoadsBoatsProcessionsHuman Figures

About the Artist

Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide · 18071873

Utagawa Sadahide was born Hashimoto Kenjirō in 1807 in Fusa Province, in the area of modern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. In the 1820s he entered the studio of the enormously prolific and influential master Utagawa Kunisada, becoming one of Kunisada's most prominent pupils and adopting the studio name Sadahide along with the Utagawa school's celebrated lineage. By 1828 his name appeared on a monument l...

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