Main Street of the Yoshiwara on a Starlight Night
Date
1900Periods
19th century , 20th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Facsimile of a Japanese print, published by the magazine Die Insel in the series Das Mappenwerk der Insel. Kunisada II, a pupil of Utagawa Kunisada, placed his signature on the lantern in the foreground. Before his marriage to Kunisada's daughter in 1846, his prints were usually signed Baidō Kunimasa; from then on he used the artist's name Kunisada II, until…
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Facsimile of a Japanese print, published by the magazine Die Insel in the series Das Mappenwerk der Insel. Kunisada II, a pupil of Utagawa Kunisada, placed his signature on the lantern in the foreground. Before his marriage to Kunisada's daughter in 1846, his prints were usually signed Baidō Kunimasa; from then on he used the artist's name Kunisada II, until the death of his father-in-law in 1870, when he began to use the name Toyokuni IV. Two love poems, one by Chokujuen Junma and one by Kiō Enba, are hidden in the night sky.
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