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.

  • Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.
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1860
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36791i
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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. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Purple dye was a recent European import

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

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3 prints : woodcut, triptych printed in colours

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

Notes

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

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Wellcome Collection 36791i

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