Hakone
Artist
Utagawa Chikamaro
(Japanese, 1831 - 1889)
CultureJapanese
Date1863
MediumWoodblock print on paper
PortfolioScenic Places of Tōkaidō
Credit LineMuseum collection
Object number0.5660
Not on view
Label TextUtagawa Chikamaro
Japanese, 1831-1889
Hakone, from Scenic Places of Tōkaidō, 1863
Woodblock print on paper
Utagawa Chikamaro's landscape is part of a traditional series about the important Tōkaidō road. He finds menacing forms in the natural topography. Chikamaro trained in the Utagawa and Kano schools, but in the year of this series he changed his name to Kyōsaid, meaning "crazy." In the following years he became one of the most outrageous, political, and provocative of traditional Japanese artists, nicknamed the "demon" artist for his prints of the 1870s. he lived well beyond the end of the Tokugawa shôgunate. He was visited by French artists who traveled to Japan, and he showed his prints at the 1883 Paris Exposition.
Chrysler Museum of Art 0.5560Exhibition History"Inspiring Impressionism: Japanese Prints in the Chrysler Collection," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, March 10 - June 18, 2017.
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
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Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
1859
