# The Shika Teahouse, in Nagasawa Rosetsu's contemporaries

Utagawa Toyokuni designed this in the early 1790s, aged about 21. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Exotic birds and tobacco—Western imports—feature in this composition. Peacocks and parrots were brought to Japan by Dutch traders in the 1700s. Many of the visitors to this teahouse, which specialized in displays of foreign birds, admire the unusual fowl while sipping tea and smoking long pipes.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: early 1790s
- Medium: One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
- Dimensions: 39.1 x 25.6 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.1113.c
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[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.

8 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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