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Sadahide Competing to Be First at the Battle of the Uji River

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Item No A1-99-240
Title Competing to Be First at the Battle of the Uji River
Artist Sadahide
Date 1861
Condition Creases,Foxing,Burn,Backed
Size 73.5×35.5cm
Price $2896.28
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Sadahide
1807-ca. 1878.
Ukiyoe painter. Also referred to as Gyokuransai, Gountei, and others as Gago. A pupil of Toyokuni -III-(Kunisada)">Kunisada I and an excellent painter of beauty, warriors, and landscape. He is known to have depicted a number of Yokohama Ukiyoe in the end of Bakufu, also considered one of the pioneers in the field along with Yoshikazu. His depicting landscape takes a bird-eye view.