A woman about to settle down at Kotetsu, at Hamamatsu station. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1830/1835.

A parody of travellers warming themselves at a fire in the Hiroshige design

Kotetsu is a table with a charcoal brazier beneath it and quilts attached, which used to keep warm in cold, unheated homes

Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], [1830/1835]

1 print : woodcut, printed in colours

Kōchōrō Kunisada-ga Bears publisher's mark, censor's seal and set title The numbering in ink has been crudely added to these later impressions by hand to each print

Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi: along the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō highway, no. 30

One print from a set of fifty-three chūban size prints (fifteen of which are in this catalogue)

Kunisada used Hiroshige's landscapes from a set of the same name to provide backgrounds for the beautiful women of his designs, from the early to middle 1830s

Wellcome Collection 37059i