Prince Genji in modern dress with lady attendants visiting Ashikaya (north Kantō Plain) in the fifth lunar month; peasants in the broad, panoramic landscape setting are busy with the spring planting. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1860.

Selected images from this work

Purple dye was a recent European import

Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], 1860.

3 prints : woodcut, triptych printed in colours

Toyokuni-ga Bears publisher's mark, block cutter's mark and censor's seal

Set of twelve prints linked to the moon (this print is no. five)

Wellcome Collection 36791i

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