Utagawa’s work is defined by its japanese (culture or style) sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.
An American Mercantile Building in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shokan no zu)
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873
True View of a Yokohama Mercantile House (Yokohama shokan shinzu)
Revised Panoramic View of Yokohama (Saikai Yokohama fukei)
The Village School Scene (Terakoya), from the series "Sugawara's Secrets (Sugawara denju)"
Landscape (Sansui)
Procession of Minamoto no Yoritomo across the Oi River (Minamoto Yoritomo ko Oikawa gyoretsu zu)
The Carriage-pulling Scene (Kurumabiki no dan), from the series "Sugawara's Secrets (Sugawara denju)"
Large wind-up automaton of Asahina Saburo
Banquet at a Foreign Merchant House in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shoka shuen no zu)
Panoramic View of the Pleasure Quarters in Yokohama, Kanagawa (Kanagawa Yokohama hanakuruwa no kokei)
Foreign Mercantile House in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shokan)
Foreign merchant house
Merchants of Yokohama: French Woman on Horseback (Yokohama shokan, Furansujin umanori no zu)
French Woman Admiring Goldfish at a Shop in Yokohama (Yokohama no shokan ni Furansujin kingyo wo moteasobu zu)
Curio Shop (Karamono ten no zu), from the series "Pictures of Goods for Sale at Yokohama (Yokohama urimono zue)"
Russians raising sheep for wool (Roshiajin rashamen kau no zu), from the series "Foreigners Drawn from Life (Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu)"
The Opening Scene (Daijo), from the series "Sugawara's Secrets (Sugawara denju)"
View of Yokohama (Yokohama fukei), from the series "Famous Places along the Tokaido (Tokaido meisho no uchi)"
Contemporary Six Jewel Faces (Tosei Mutamagao)
Dutch Woman Making a Toast to Her Children (Oranda fujin kyosho aijido no zu), from the series "Foreigners Drawn from Life (Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu)"