Two samurai and four passers-by, looking at a group of courtesans, in the square cartouche above left a poem by Takao. Because of the maple leaves in the cartouche, it could be the famous courtesan Takao, who had a maple leaf as an emblem, Scene in the Yoshiwara., print maker: Toyokuni (I), Utagawa, (mentioned on object), painter: Hishikawa Moronobu, (copy after), Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1805, paper, colour woodcut, h 400 mm × w 552 mm

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