Utagawa Sadahide. Pictures from Ōtsu / Fan print, c. 1849.

An uncut fan print showing Otsu-e [大津絵] (Otsu pictures).

Artist: Utagawa Sadahide [歌川貞秀] (Japanese, 1807 – 1879).

Signed: Gountei Sadahide ga [五雲亭貞秀画] (Picture by Gountei Sadahide); characters on the Otsu-e.

Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburō [伊場屋仙三郎] (Japanese, c. 1815 – 1869).

Published: c. 1849.

Inscription in a paper-weight shaped cartouche: [大津追分絵の図] Ōtsu-oi wake-e no zu (Following Otsu – image of separate pictures)

No date seal, no censor seal (privately printed?)

Media: Fan print (uchiwa-e, 団扇絵), 235 x 298 mm.

Collection	Japanese prints and drawings
Type or purpose	Fan, Woodblock print
Period	19 AD, Edo Period (1603 – 1868), Mid-19th century
Country	Japan
Media	Ink and color on paper
Technique	Woodblock print (nishiki-e)
Size	Fan print. Uchiwa-e
Subject	Folk art, Pictures from Ōtsu (大津絵, Ōtsu-e)
Artist	Utagawa [歌川] or Gountei [五雲亭] Sadahide [貞秀] (Japanese, 1807 – c. 1879)
Publisher	Ibaya Senzaburō [伊場屋仙三郎] (Japanese, fl. 1815 – 1869)
Publishing year	1849
Acquisition year	2022

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