Courtesan Seated at a Writing Table

Utagawa ToyohiroWW-1797-160605

1797·color woodblock print·Sheet: 32.4 x 21.6 cm (12 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.)

Bequest of James Parmelee

Catalogue

Year: 1797
Medium: color woodblock print
Dimensions: Sheet: 32.4 x 21.6 cm (12 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.)
Collection: Cleveland 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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