Picture of Men and Women from Many Countries (Bankoku danjo jinbutsu zue)1861
Utagawa Yoshiiku designed this in 1861, aged 28. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago. More about this work
About this work
A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.
Description from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Utagawa Yoshiiku designed this in 1861, aged 28. It is now at 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 Yoshiiku
Japanese, 1833–1904
Ukiyo-e
Japanese woodblock prints of the floating world: actors, courtesans, landscapes and the sea.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Art Institute of Chicago has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 1926.1764
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Type
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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