二十四孝童子鑑  楊香|Yang Xiang (Yō Kō), from the series A Child’s Mirror of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijūshi kō dōji kagami)

二十四孝童子鑑  楊香|Yang Xiang (Yō Kō), from the series A Child’s Mirror of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijūshi kō dōji kagami) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

Image: 8 5/8 x 13 7/8 in. (21.9 x 35.2 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

2007.49.277

Tags

BoysMenTigersTrees

About the Artist

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · 17971861

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861) was born in Edo to the silk-dyer Yanagiya Kichiyemon, originally bearing the childhood name Yoshisaburō. From a young age, he assisted in his family's pattern design work, which sharpened his innate mastery of color and textile motifs that would permeate his later prints. At around twelve years old, his prodigious drawing skills drew the attention of the renowned Utag...

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