Sails Returning to Yahashi

Utagawa ToyohiroWW-1763-160597

1763·Woodblock print; ink and color on paper·H. 8 13/16 in. (22.4 cm); W. 5 15/16 in. (15.1 cm)

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929

Catalogue

Year: 1763
Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: H. 8 13/16 in. (22.4 cm); W. 5 15/16 in. (15.1 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Utagawa Toyohiro

Artist

Utagawa Toyohiro

Painting

Utagawa Toyohiro , birth name Okajima Tōjiro (1773–1828), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist and painter. He was a member of the Utagawa school and studied under Utagawa Toyoharu, the school's founder. His works include a number of ukiyo-e landscape series, as well as many depictions of the daily activities in the Yoshiwara entertainment quarter; many of his stylistic features led to Hokusai and Hiroshige, as well as producing an important series of ukiyo-e triptychs in collaboration with Toyokuni, and numerous book and e-hon illustrations, which occupied him in his later years.

Japan

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