Catalog record · 目録番号 46421
A Scene from Chasing a Pearl
Catalog note / 解説
Utagawa Kuniyoshi was born in downtown Edo (current Tokyo), where his family owned a textile-dyeing studio. In 1811, he joined the studio of Utagawa Toyokuni, one of the most popular ukiyo-e artists of the time, who specialized in actor prints. Although Kuniyoshi's work often concentrated on history and legends, he also produced many other genres of prints including images of beautiful women (bijin-ga), Kabuki actors and landscapes. His greatest success lay in the production of warrior and supernatural pictures. This print depicts the story Chasing A Pearl. In the Hakuhö period (7th- 8th centuries), a daughter of Fujiwara no Kamatari, the head of a powerful clan, was given as a consort to a…
Image record / 画像情報
Honolulu · 1853 · honolulu
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