Brooklyn Museum - Returning Sails at Tsukuda from Eight Views of Edo - Utagawa Toyohiro

, birth name Okajima Tōjiro (1773–1828), was a Japanese

ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock printing, woodblock prints and Nikuhitsu-ga, paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes ...

artist and

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. He was a member of the

Utagawa school The Utagawa school () was one of the main schools of ukiyo-e, founded by Utagawa Toyoharu. It was the largest ukiyo-e school of its period. The main styles were bijin-ga (beautiful women) and uki-e (perspective picture). His pupil, Toyokuni I, t ...

and studied under

Utagawa Toyoharu Utagawa Toyoharu (歌川豊春, – 1814) was a Japanese artist in the ukiyo-e genre, known as the founder of the Utagawa school and for his ''uki-e'' pictures that incorporated Western-style Perspective (graphical), geometrical perspecti ...

, 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 was a famous ( red-light district) in Edo, present-day Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1617, Yoshiwara was one of three licensed and well-known red-light districts created during the early 17th century by the Tokugawa shogunate, alongside Shim ...

entertainment quarter; many of his stylistic features paved the way for

Hokusai , known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock printing in Japan, woodblock print series ''Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji'' includes the iconic print ''The Gr ...

and

Hiroshige or , born Andō Tokutarō (; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series '' The Fifty-three Stations ...

(the latter a prodigy who studied under Toyohiro, becoming one of the very finest of all landscape artists), as well as producing an important series of ukiyo-e

triptych A triptych ( ) is a work of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided into three sections, or three carved panels that are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open. It is therefore a type of polyptych, the term for all m ...

s in collaboration with Toyokuni, and numerous book and

e-hon is the Japanese term for picture books. It may be applied in the general sense, or may refer specifically to a type of woodblock printed illustrated volume published in the Edo period (1603–1867). The first were religious items with images ...

illustrations, which occupied him in his later years. The ukiyo-e series he produced include the following: * ''

Eight Views The Eight Views is an East Asian term used to allude to the most beautiful or otherwise significant scenes of a certain area. It is a term often used in East Asia. Historically, various series of eight views were produced; in some cases, such as ...

Edo Edo (), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo. Edo, formerly a (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the '' de facto'' capital of Japan from 1603 as the seat of the Tokugawa shogu ...

'' (several series) * '' Eight Views of Ōmi'' (several series) * ''Newly Published Perspective Pieces'' (''Shinpan

uki-e refers to a genre of ukiyo-e pictures that employs western conventions of linear perspective. Although they never constituted more than a minor genre, pictures in perspective were drawn and printed by Japanese artists from their introduction in ...

'') * ''Twelve Months by Two Artists, Toyokuni and Toyohiro'' (''Toyokuni Toyohiro ryōga jūnikō''), with Toyokuni * Untitled series of A Day in the Life of a

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* Untitled series of Eight Views of Edo in the Snow * The Six Great Poets * The Twelve Hours * The Four Accomplishments * The Three Cities

Gallery

File:Niwatori LCCN2009615211.tif, Cock, 1804 File:MET DP136926.jpg, ''Flower Arrangement of Narcissus in a Flat Green Dish'' File:Utagawa_Toyohiro_-_Woman_Putting_on_Finger_Plectrums_to_Play_the_Koto_-_14.76.43_-_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg, ''Woman Putting on Finger Plectrums to Play the Koto'', hanging scroll (detail) File:Yoshiwara LCCN2008660025.jpg, Print of Mt. Fuji, 1800

References

* Hillier, Jack Ronald. 1970. ''Catalogue of the Japanese paintings and prints in the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Gale, Vol. 1'', p. 346. Taylor & Francis, Dec 31, 1970. *Wendy shore,Woodbine Books 1980, Ukiyo-e published by Castle Books for Library of fine Arts p. 26 1773 births 1828 deaths Ukiyo-e artists Utagawa school {{printmaker-stub