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View of a Festival Procession in Edo, from the series Perspective Pictures

View of a Festival Procession in Edo, from the series Perspective Pictures

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Utagawa Toyoharu

During the Edo period, Japan maintained official diplomatic relations with the Koreans, Dutch, and Ryukuans. Visits from the embassies provided rare spectacles for the inhabitants of Edo. The Korean embassy processions were most famous, with ambassadors and retinues of up to five hundred people. Although there was a Korean mission that came in 1764 to pay tribute to the new Tokugawa shogun, Toyoharu has actually depicted a reenactment of the procession with Japanese dressed in Korean costume. These costumed parades became popular events during the annual Sanno and Kanda festivals. Mt. Fuji appears in the far distance near the vanishing point of this striking example of single-point perspective.
Artist
Utagawa Toyoharu
(Japanese, 1735 - 1814)
Title
View of a Festival Procession in Edo, from the series Perspective Pictures
Date
1770-1780
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
243 x 363 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.3085
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 61, no. 7
  • Osumi, Takeshige, ed. "Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection Ukiyo-e Masterpieces Exhibition." Tokyo: Bun You Associates, 1999.
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 319

  • Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900 : Chazen Museum of Art, 3/21/2008–6/15/2008
  • Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/3/2007–1/6/2008
  • Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/13/1999–6/30/2000

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