Title : Seiro kabuki yatsushi e-zukushi, juban-tsuzuki 青楼歌舞妓やつし画尽 十番続 (Complete Illustrations of Yoshiwara Parodies of Kabuki, Ten-sheet Composition)

Artist : Kitagawa Utamaro

Date : 1798

Details : More information...

Source : British Museum
Browse all 9120 prints...

Description : Colour woodblock-printed triptych. Courtesan Yosooi of Matsubaya gathered together with assistants beneath flowering cherry trees at Naka-no-cho; assistant on left sheet carrying doll modelled on Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro VI in role of swashbuckling champion of oppressed, Sukeroku. Inscribed, signed, marked and sealed.

Download Image