Ebisu and Benten Walking in the Snow

Utagawa ToyohiroWW-1763-160599

1763·Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper·8 9/16 x 7 9/16 in. (21.7 x 19.2 cm)

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

Catalogue

Year: 1763
Medium: Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 8 9/16 x 7 9/16 in. (21.7 x 19.2 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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