Portrait of a Woman Tuning Her Shamisen On a Veranda

Utagawa Toyohiro, born Okajima Tōjiro, was a distinguished Japanese ukiyo-e artist and painter of the Edo period. A prominent member of the influential Utagawa school, he studied under the school’s founder, Utagawa Toyoharu. Toyohiro became known for his refined landscape prints, poetic depictions of daily life, and...