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)
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

Revised Panoramic View of Yokohama (Saikai Yokohama fukei)
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

The Village School Scene (Terakoya), from the series "Sugawara's Secrets (Sugawara denju)"
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

Landscape (Sansui)
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

Procession of Minamoto no Yoritomo across the Oi River (Minamoto Yoritomo ko Oikawa gyoretsu zu)
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

The Carriage-pulling Scene (Kurumabiki no dan), from the series "Sugawara's Secrets (Sugawara denju)"
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

Large wind-up automaton of Asahina Saburo
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

Banquet at a Foreign Merchant House in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shoka shuen no zu)
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

Panoramic View of the Pleasure Quarters in Yokohama, Kanagawa (Kanagawa Yokohama hanakuruwa no kokei)
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

Foreign Mercantile House in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shokan)
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

Foreign merchant house
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

Merchants of Yokohama: French Woman on Horseback (Yokohama shokan, Furansujin umanori no zu)
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

French Woman Admiring Goldfish at a Shop in Yokohama (Yokohama no shokan ni Furansujin kingyo wo moteasobu zu)
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

Curio Shop (Karamono ten no zu), from the series "Pictures of Goods for Sale at Yokohama (Yokohama urimono zue)"
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

Russians raising sheep for wool (Roshiajin rashamen kau no zu), from the series "Foreigners Drawn from Life (Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu)"
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

The Opening Scene (Daijo), from the series "Sugawara's Secrets (Sugawara denju)"
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

View of Yokohama (Yokohama fukei), from the series "Famous Places along the Tokaido (Tokaido meisho no uchi)"
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

Contemporary Six Jewel Faces (Tosei Mutamagao)
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873

Dutch Woman Making a Toast to Her Children (Oranda fujin kyosho aijido no zu), from the series "Foreigners Drawn from Life (Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu)"
Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873