Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Prints
Japan
Subject/design:
In the Snow at Tsukahara on Sado Island (Sashû Tsukahara setchû 佐州塚原雪中), from the series The Illustrated Abridged Biography of the Founder (Kôzô goichidai ryakuzu 高祖御一代略圖)
The monk Nichiren, in red garments and wearing a large hat, is struggling up a snow-covered mountain slope during his exile to the Island of Sado in 1271.
Date:
circa 1834, published by Iseya Rihei
Size:
ôban, 25,2 cm x 37,6 cm
Place of origin:
Japan
Artist:
Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川國芳 (1798-1861)
Inventory number:
CB.EJ.1949.365
Copyright:
Fondation Baur
Photographer:
Marian Gérard