Three images, text in all. This is the same series as "Billand Cover of Book of Prints" by different artists (no accession number).
This print is designed to seem like a collage of prints about Edo (now Tokyo).  The Kabuki actor portrait is supposedly by Toyokuni, the courtesan by Hokusai.  The puppy sits next to a waterbucket in Yoshiwara, the government licensed brothel area.  A print like this might have been sold as a tourist item (comparable to a postcard collage of Hollywood scenes), but it also allowed Yoshitoshi to pay homage to the ukiyo-e tradition, of which he was the last great practitioner.

Seals all over all three images that make up the piece. On mat, in pencil: Marer 392. Description of scene on verso of mat. Signed: Yoshitoshi hitsu, Shichiju hachi o Toyokuni ga and Ho. Carver: Hori Ota Tashichi. Censor's seal: Aratame and date (I-hachi) on single seal.

Colored ink woodblock on paper; oban.

Edo period Japanese color woodblock print with an image of three different scenes; two of objects and one a portrait.

This object has the following keywords:

• 1841-1868
• Actors and Actresses
• Cities

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