japanese art, japanese antique, woodblock print, ukiyo-e, sadahide utagawa, musha-e
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Sadahide, Echigo and Kai, The Great Battle of Kawanakajima

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Artist: Sadahide Utagawa (1807-1879)
Title: Echigo and Kai, The Great Battle of Kawanakajima
Publisher: Moriya Jihei
Date: 1859
Size: (L) 36.3 x 24.3, (C) 36.4 x 23.7, (R) 36.5 x 24.4 cm

絵師:歌川貞秀
題名:甲越川中嶋大合戦
年代:嘉永6年

 

Original Japanese woodblock print.

Sadahide Utagawa


Sadahide was a prolific but minor woodblock printmaker and illustrator. His style was born out of the Utagawa school in which he studied, his early works centring around Bijin-ga, beauty portraits and later producing ukiyo-e prints in the landscape and musha-e genres. However, he is most well-known for his Yokohama-e; scenes of modern industry and foreigners in Yokohama. Sadahide produced not just print, but guidebooks to Yokohama, teaching the habits of foreign residents hoping to dispel myths about them, and also show the Japanese people what can learn from Western customs.

 

Throughout his work, Sadahide’s effective and decorative prints show the influence of Western perspective and chiaroscuro. He was chosen as one ukiyo-e artist in the Tokugawa Shogun’s delegation to the 1867 Paris exhibition, giving him the chance to be shown internationally in a period where he was a best-selling artist in Japan.

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Print FormatTriptych
ArtistSadahide Utagawa
SubjectSamurai & Male
Dimensions(L) 36.3 x 24.3, (C) 36.4 x 23.7, (R) 36.5 x 24.4 cm
Condition ReportTrimmed, soiling, wear, creases, some holes and tears, paper residue on back.
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