AUTUMN MOON AT SHIN YANAGIMACHI (Utagawa Yoshiiku)

Object: original Japanese woodblock print
Genre: ukiyo-e 浮世絵 pictures of the floating world

Artist: Utagawa Yoshiiku 歌川芳幾 (1833-1904), signed Keisai Yoshiiku hitsu 蕙齋芳幾筆
From the series: Eight Views of Ryougoku 両国八景之内
Print title: Autumn Moon at Shin Yanagimachi 新柳街の秋の月
Print subject: geisha Some of the Nakamuraya 中むら屋そめ and Ito of the Masudaya 升田屋いと

Publisher: Kagaya Kichiemon 加賀屋吉右衛門 aka Kichibei 吉兵衛 (Seiseido 青盛堂)
Censor’s seal: Snake 5 aratame 巳五改

Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing

Year: 1869, 5th month
Condition: overall good, slight wrinkles, small damage in the lower left corner
Dimensions: 24,5 x 35,5 cm

SOLD