Memorial portrait of Utagawa Hiroshige
1858
Color woodblock print; oban
35.6 × 24.5 cm (14 × 9.6 in)
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In the collection of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · as of July 2026
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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG
Here, Utagawa Hiroshige is depicted as a monk in a Buddhist monastery seated on a cushion. He is dressed in a priestly garb of green and an overgarment of thin, black silk gauze. The lengthy text by Hiroshige’s good friend, writer Tenmei Rojin, gives an account of the artist’s career, ending with Hiroshige’s farewell poem: “Dropping my brush in Azuma [Edo], I go the long journey to the western country [paradise] to view there the wonderful scenery.”
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