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Utagawa Sadakage

ca. 1840 · Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper · Asian Art

Sadakage, a pupil of Utagawa Kunisada, worked first in Edo and later in Osaka. He specialized in the theme of graceful women. Here, a woman is readjusting her coiffure after meeting a customer. The suggestive spring poem by Rōgatsuan Baiei in the long, rectangular label at the left is entitled "Mokuboji," after a temple whose grounds are famous both for the grave of the abducted child Umewakamaru from the Noh play Sumidagawa and for their cherry blossoms and willow trees.

Artist

Utagawa Sadakage

Date

ca. 1840

Medium

Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1922