Two attendants are warming sake on a fire of autumn leaves; a woman stands like an apparition between them, holding the sake bottle. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1857.

  • Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880.
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1857
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36778i
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Two attendants are warming sake on a fire of autumn leaves; a woman stands like an apparition between them, holding the sake bottle. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1857. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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From a set reworking scenes from the famous tenth and eleventh century novel 'Tale of ginji' by Murasaki Shikibu: this scene shows an episode in chapter 38, the bell cricket. Kunisada I began the vogue for 'contemporary' versions of Genji

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Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], 1857.

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1 print : woodcut, printed in colours

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Kōchōrō Kunisada-ga Bears publisher's mark, censor's seal and set title Line of poetry in the white shell; the red shell gives the chapter number and also the symbol linked to each chapter

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Wellcome Collection 36778i

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