Sumo Wrestler Takes on a Foreigner
by Utagawa Shigetoshi
Title
Sumo Wrestler Takes on a Foreigner
Artist
Utagawa Shigetoshi
Medium
Painting - Painting
Description
Japanese print of a foreigner testing the strength of a sumo wrestler in Yokohama. Ukiyo-e, "pictures of the floating world", is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the Tokugawa or Edo Period (1615-1868). They were mass produced and meant for mainly townsmen, who were generally not wealthy enough to afford an original painting. The original subject of ukiyo-e was city life, in particular activities and scenes from the entertainment district, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre and pleasure quarters.
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