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Tsutaya Jūzaburō: Master Publisher of Ukiyo-e

Chōkyōsai Eiri (act. 1790s–early 1800s)
Flowers of Edo: The Master of Kyōbashi (Edo no hana Kyōbashi natori)
ca. 1795
Publisher: Tsutaya Jūzaburō
Color woodcut with mica ground
39.1 x 26 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936, JP 241

The popular writer, artist, and man-about-town Santō Kyōden (1761–1816) is identified in this title as the master of the Kyōbashi district, the heart of Edo city. It is well documented that Kyōden, who briefly worked as an ukiyo-e artist under the name Kitao Masanobu, made extra money at his shop, which supplied smoking paraphernalia, inscribing and selling fans with his distinctive calligraphy and drawings.

Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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