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Picture of a Daimyo's Procession, from the series Perspective Pictures

Picture of a Daimyo's Procession, from the series Perspective Pictures

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Utagawa Toyoharu

In 1615, the new Tokugawa government established its basic regulatory policy, which included a system of “alternate attendance” requiring daimyo, or feudal lords, to alternate years spent in their home province and in Edo. Daimyo traveled in elaborate grand processions between their home domains and Edo, where their wives and children were forced to permanently reside. In this print, the procession has finally reached its destination. The lord, who has just dismounted from his white horse, stands outside the large front gate of his complex, while two female figures wait inside. The grand procession continues to wind off into the distance at the right of the composition.
Artist
Utagawa Toyoharu
(Japanese, 1735 - 1814)
Title
Picture of a Daimyo's Procession, from the series Perspective Pictures
Date
1770-1780
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
242 x 360 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.3090
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. 62, no. 8
  • Newland, Amy Reigle ed. "The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints." Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2006. p. 16, no. 1

  • Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/3/2007–1/6/2008

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