Main Street of the Yoshiwara on a Starlight Night, Utagawa Kunisada II, 1852–64

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Main Street of the Yoshiwara on a Starlight Night, Edo period (1615–1868), 1852–64, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper, 8 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. ( x cm), Prints, Utagawa Kunisada II (Japanese, 1823–1880), Kunisada II, a pupil of Utagawa Kunisada, placed his signature on the lantern in the foreground. Before his marriage to Kunisada's daughter in 1846, his prints were usually signed Baidō Kunimasa; from then on he used the artist's name Kunisada II, until the death of his father-in-law in 1870, when he began to use the name Toyokuni IV

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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