Tetsukuri no Tamagawa on the Musashino Plain, Utagawa Toyokuni I, ca. 1800


Tetsukuri no Tamagawa on the Musashino Plain, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1800, Japan, Triptych of polychrome woodblocks print; ink and color on paper, 15 1/2 x 30 1/8 in. ( x cm), Prints, Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825), This triptych has an eye-catching composition featuring beautiful women. Two figures in dark kimonos with kasuri patterns are particularly striking. The subject matter of Six Jewel Rivers, known as Mu-Tamagawa, was inspired by classical waka poems and became popular in the pictorial tradition during the Edo period


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