帝国議会貴族院之図|Illustration of The Imperial Assembly of the House of Peers (Teikoku gikai kizokuin no zu)
Medium
Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Oban; 14 x 29 3/4 in. (35.6 x 75.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Meiji period (1868–1912)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1962
Accession Number
JP3422
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu · 1838–1912
Toyohara Chikanobu, born Hashimoto Naoyoshi in 1838 in Echigo Province (modern Niigata Prefecture), emerged as one of the last great ukiyo-e masters during Japan's Meiji era. The son of a low-ranking samurai retainer to the Sakakibara clan, he trained initially in the Kanō school of painting before turning to ukiyo-e printmaking. He studied under a disciple of Keisai Eisen, then joined the studio ...