Sawa Sekkyō



Sawa Sekkyō (沢 雪喬, 沢 雪崎, or 沢 雪橋)was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was originally a pupil of Tsutsumi Tōrin a painter of the Kanō school, but left the school and became an independent ukiyo-e artist. Sekkyō is best known for his landscapes and bird-and-animal studies, the latter often printed entirely in black or blue ink (aizuri-e).