Utagawa Toyohiro (歌川豊広) (artist 1773 – 1828)
Woman smoking, seated man writing and small boy holding tray
ca 1801
9.75 in x 15 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Toyohiro ga (豊広画)
Publisher: Yamadaya Sanshirō
(Marks 584 - seal 20-018)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - two panels of a triptych of a young man practicing calligraphy - a Toyokuni I/Toyohiro collaboration
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - a triptych of a young man painting a fan The young man is holding or reading a poem card in his left hand, which it appears he may have just written. Notice the brush in his right hand and ink stone in a long, narrow box below it. Behind the woman, just beyond the railing, are large, beautiful chrysanthemums.
In ca. 1801 Toyohiro created a couple of triptychs that feature a young man either doing calligraphy or painting a fan. See the links to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston above. Note also that the woman's hairstyle in this print in the Lyon Collection is done up in the same style of some of the women in these compositions.
Yamadaya Sanshirō (山田屋三四郎) (publisher)