Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 46421
A Scene from Chasing a Pearl
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Kuniyoshi歌川国芳
- Date / 年代
- 1853
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / honolulu
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 481 × 246 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Honolulu Museum of Art
- Published by / 公開者
- 星野アカリ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Honolulu Museum of Art
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…
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