Utagawa Sadahide
(1807-1873)
Utagawa Sadahide was also known as Hashimoto, Gountei Sadahide and Gyokuransai Sadahide. He was a pupil of Kunisada I (1786-1864) and is considered one of his more accomplished students. He followed closely in his master's footsteps, and distinguished himself by his Yokohama-e - prints from the Western enclave of Yokohama depicting scenes with Westerners. For this he adopted different perspective, including the birds-eye view. Sadahide did not paint pictures of only Yokohama, but painted bird's-eye view paintings of other cities, including Osaka, Kyoto, and Nagasaki, and is a leading exponent of the Ichiranzu, the Panoramic View. At his time he was among the top appreciated designers, as he was one of the eleven woodblock artists whose work was shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1866, for which he received the Légion d'Honneur.
The Procession of Shogun Minamoto Yoritomo, 1862