Japanese Print "Inari Gongen Shrines at Öji" by Utagawa Kunisada
Artist:Utagawa Kunisada
Title:Inari Gongen Shrines at Öji
Date:1830 - 1834 c.
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Source:Honolulu Museum of Art
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Description:
In this landscape series, "Famous Places in the Style of Dutch Oil Painting," Kunisada tries to depict a Western-style wooden frame. On the upper left side, his signature is written horizontally (as opposed to the usual Japanese vertical signature). A number of ukiyo-e artists sought new styles and methods of depicting objects in order to satisfy the sophisticated city people of Edo. Many nineteenth-century European impressionists were inspired by their art. Thus, there arose a remarkable mutual interest between them. (2008)