# A Windy Day under the Cherry Trees

**Utagawa Toyokuni** (Japanese, 1769–1825)  
c. 1797  
Color woodblock prints; oban triptych

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.2313. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/21660).

## About this work

Utagawa Toyokuni designed this in about 1797, aged about 23. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of color woodblock prints; oban triptych.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Colour woodblock print.** In Japan these were a team effort. The artist drew the design, a carver cut it into cherry-wood blocks, one block for each colour, and a printer brushed on the pigment and rubbed each sheet by hand. Full-colour prints of this kind were called nishiki-e, “brocade pictures”, from the 1760s on.
- **Triptych.** Three sheets designed to sit side by side and read as one wide picture.
- **Ōban.** The standard large Japanese print size, about 38 × 25 cm.

### [Utagawa Toyokuni](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/utagawa-toyokuni)

Japanese, 1769–1825

Toyokuni studied with Utagawa Toyoharu, founder of the Utagawa school, and made his name in the 1790s with vivid portraits of kabuki actors and pictures of fashionable women. His full-length series of actors in their roles, issued in 1794–96, rivalled the best of the day, and his commercial success made the Utagawa line the dominant force in Edo woodblock design. Among his many pupils were Kunisada and Kuniyoshi, who carried the school into the next generation.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Print
- Culture: Japan
- The artist was about 23
- Century: 18th century
- Movement: [Ukiyo-e](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/ukiyo-e)
- Subjects: Japanese (culture or style)
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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