Actors in role: a young lover/rebel Shirai Gompachi reading a love letter while being led along by a courtesan's child attendant. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1856.

  • Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.
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Month 11, 1856
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35859i
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Actors in role: a young lover/rebel Shirai Gompachi reading a love letter while being led along by a courtesan's child attendant. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1856. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The girl wears the ornate robes and hair ornaments that are typical of high ranking courtesan child attendants

A night scene with a lantern to the left by a willow tree; a view of Edo rooftops in the light of a full moon partly obscured by a cloud band

The love letter is written on embossed paper

Whole-length figures

Publication/Creation

Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], Month 11, 1856.

Physical description

1 print : woodcut, printed in colours

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Ichiyōsai Toyokuni-ga Bears publisher's mark, censor's seal, actor's role and set title Poem in the inset above with a paddle and shuttlecock as illustration

Notes

Parody of thirty-six selected verses

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Wellcome Collection 35859i

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