Memorial portrait of Utagawa Hiroshige
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786-1864)
1858
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 35.6 × 24.5 cm (14 × 9 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Here, Utagawa Hiroshige is depicted as a monk in a Buddhist monastery seated on a cushion. He is dressed in a priestly garb of green and an overgarment of thin, black silk gauze. The lengthy text by Hiroshige’s good friend, writer Tenmei Rojin, gives an account of the artist’s career, ending with Hiroshige’s farewell poem: “Dropping my brush in Azuma [Edo], I go the long journey to the western country [paradise] to view there the wonderful scenery.”
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
