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

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

ukiyo-e Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk t ...

artist and painter. 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, too ...

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 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 Shimab ...

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

Hiroshige Utagawa Hiroshige (, also ; ja, 歌川広重 ), 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 l ...

(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 ( ; from the Greek adjective ''τρίπτυχον'' "''triptukhon''" ("three-fold"), from ''tri'', i.e., "three" and ''ptysso'', i.e., "to fold" or ''ptyx'', i.e., "fold") is a work of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided ...

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 (in ; ja, 八景, hakkei and Korean: ) 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 view ...

of Edo'' (several series) * ''

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'' (several series) * ''Newly Published Perspective Pieces'' (''Shinpan uki-e'') * ''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