Japanese Woodblock Print 13 - Sumo, Japanese Wresting by Toyokuni Utagawa

Woodblock print (Woodblock printing in Japan (木版画, moku-hanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period)

Utagawa Toyokuni (歌川豐國; 1769 in Edo - 24 February 1825 in Edo), also often referred to as Toyokuni I, was a great master of ukiyo-e, known in particular for his kabuki actor prints. He was the second head of the renowned Utagawa school of Japanese woodblock artists, and was the artist who really moved it to the position of great fame and power it occupied for the rest of the nineteenth century.